“One cannot live on anger, my son.”

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

“You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending”

“Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.”

“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”