“And it suddenly occured to me that maybe peace was possible.”

“He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?''We do.' I smiled.He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me. 'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade.”

“Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?”

“Good things make choosing difficult.Bad things leave no choice”

“Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had”

“The hardest part for us was watching them harvest our Shamouti oranges.Those were our favourites, thick skinned, seedless and juicy.When the wind was strong, the scent of their blossoms in the spring and their fruit in the summer still reached us.”

“Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war”