“Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.”

“You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.”

“I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.”

“If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.”

“She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.”

“A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.”