“Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.”

“How much this book of life changes, he thought. And we are not the ones to write the pages.”

“In Europe, his contacts apologized and said there was nothing they could do. They would keep trying, but no one was listening. Rwanda had no oil or strategic interest, no diamonds or gold.”

“Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.”

“She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.”

“The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.”

“Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.”