“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”

“there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a ather. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing.”

“When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.”

“When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”

“Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which Tariq's father sometimes played old Pashto songs, time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq's absence or presence.”