“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.”

“Don't allow guilt to enter your heart, because it's a disease, like cancer, that'll eat away at you until there's nothing left.”

“I had no idea words could have so much power and beauty.”

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

“The world should have stopped, but it didn't.”

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

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