Honor Quotes
"I’ve reached an age at which I’m more at peace with my limitations and failures."
"I had to send it into some corner of the universe where it could float freely, away from us."
"Mothers don’t go to heaven when they die. They get special permission from God to stay around a bit longer and watch over their children."
"They understood everything. They were just forgiving."
"What goes against nature goes against Allah’s will."
"She was as silent as the graveyard by the hills."
"Men had honour. Old men, middle-aged men, even schoolboys. Women did not have honour."
"There were always two sides, and two sides only. Win or lose."
"How could I have developed a speech impediment, just like that?"
"Airheads! They must have thought I had a crush on them."
"As soon as the torture was over, I grabbed my rucksack and headed to the door."
"We didn’t live in this flat, only sojourned."
"Your girlfriend was your girl, your family was your family."
"I wondered what surprised her more – that I was home almost three hours early or that I was her son."
"The truth, her truth, was not hidden under layers upon layers, like a Victorian lady’s petticoat."
"Nobody at school was aware of what was going on."
"Sometimes a screw takes against one of us and that’s the end of the story."
"What would his brother Tariq say when he learned that he had found himself a tainted wife – an exact replica of their mother?"
"Hours later, when he entered the headman’s house, he found him smoking a pipe, waiting."
"‘Really?’ The headman’s eyes glinted with appreciation."
"‘And I don’t,’ Adem said, after a pause. ‘I’ll take the other one.’"
"I’ll never forgive you for what you’ve done. You might rot in prison or burn in hell, but neither the Queen’s nor God’s punishment will ever wash off this sin in my eyes."
"I’ll not support you. Whatever Uncle Tariq says, I’ll testify against you."
"I remember once asking my mother why she had married my father."
"Absolutely, I’ve always wanted to look like a celebrity."
"If you teach someone the alphabet, how can you stop him from reading?"
"I was blind all this time, and now that my eyes are open, I’m afraid of the light."
"I don’t cure them so much as enable them to cure themselves."
"In this world every creature was made to challenge, to change and to complete something else."
"You should thank Allah, He’s the one who saves lives."
"A horse with a broken leg deserved to die with dignity."
"Eating too much meat caused gout, an illness that could kill if it went untreated."
"The human body was a mystery. It loved to fight."
"Some women are married and alone. Some, like me, are merely alone."
"I knew it looked pathetic, but the truth was I preferred doing homework or reading a good book to hanging around with my peers."
"I’ll never forget when that happened for the first time. It freaked me out like hell."
"But I have the Amber Concubine and I’m allowed to give her to whomever I choose. And I choose you."
"Like biscuits on a conveyor belt, cons keep coming."
"Compassion always catches me off guard. I never know quite what to do with it."
"‘That person is you,’ he says, stressing the last word."
"Forget angry tigers, we don’t learn anything from them. We learn from humans."
"Every year dozens of women in Europe and the States are hospitalized because of this illness."
"We are all looking down the cliff. We’ll see the fall of this regime."
"Children are delightful when they’re babies, but then they start to walk and break everything."
"He believed the way a man walked said a great deal about him."
"Mother lies, Mother deceives, She is not who she says she is."
"‘What have you done, son?’ His voice sounded strangled."
"Because people like us ought to know how to defend ourselves."
"If you wanted to know a man’s true character, all you had to do was watch him box."
"You’re your own man. No strings attached. That’s the way you like it."
"One stick breaks easily but a bundle is unbreakable."
"If you don’t know God yourself and if you disobey your parents, you’ll be floating in the air."
"If you don’t take care of this matter, then I will."
"If she didn’t see the world, perhaps the world would not see her."
"People with ropes around their necks don’t always hang."
"In real life, people with ropes around their necks always hanged."
"I’m not interested in God’s tests. I want to face my own challenges."
"We don’t want to see you around. Don’t come to her funeral and don’t try to involve yourself any further."
"Winners won all the time and losers kept losing."
"Don’t listen to dark things. Why are you running away from me?"
"Where we’re going nobody gets sick. Your teeth will be just fine and my head won’t hurt any more."
"As long as they were there, she would come back."
"A deep indifference washed over him, an acceptance of the things he could not change – including himself."
"A man who cannot see his faults can never heal."
"Always better to look within. Leave other people to themselves."
"If you want to climb, start criticizing yourself."
"You are a hot-air balloon. Tell me, you want to go up or down?"
"Unlike you, I’ve committed a crime, a big one."
"Every now and then she would come here to vent her anger."
"Her entire being was reduced – or magnified – to a cry."