“His utter helplessness at the sight of my tears leaked through his confident voice. It was almost funny that such a great warrior as Hasani was reduced to panic at the sight of a stupid tear or two.”
“A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.”
“Isis, I am envious of every male that sets his sight on you, and if I could, I would tear out their eyes.”
“We must have made a funny sight: two gentlemen in white suits and white bowlers tiptoeing through the jungle.”
“But not one tear did I shed for their delight. I was her brave warrior, brave as the warriors who marched through my dreams.”
“As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies.”