You put your time where your priority is.

It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.

The nicest characters in A Week in December research are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.

I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my feelings. How can I be sure when she has said nothing? Is this youthful vanity? I wish in some ways that it were. But I am so convinced that I barely need question myself. This conviction brings me no joy.[…]I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive.