“Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.”

“Make morning into a key and throw it into the well,go slowly , my lovely moon, go slowly.let the morning sun forget to rise in the east ,go slowly , my lovely moon, go slowly.”

“I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I’ll die if you go.”

“You’re not going to cry, are you?- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.”

“A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.”

“And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.”

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”