“Is that a rule? Do you have a rule that you can’t kiss people in the morning?”

“When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.”

“It’s because you’re different. You can’t live life by rules others give you. In that way, you and I are the same. You have to find your own rules. All my life I’ve been running away from their rules, Hayat. All my life. You will be the same.”

“People do not exist to follow rules. Rules exist to protect the people.”

“There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.”

“The golden rule says do unto others as you would have done unto you. The mother-in-law rule says do unto others as they would have done unto them.”