“إن هذا الكتاب يرغب في ان يفي العرب دينا استحق منذ زمن بعيد”

“ومضيت أحرث في دروب قحلت من خطاي منذ زمن بعيد ..”

“Scatter the ashes of the past, happy in the wind. It is so healing, when you start again.”

“Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.”

“... with the few small spots of light like golden stars in the night, the sweet stale scent of incense, and the warm smell of the burning wax. And she at rest within her own star.”

“One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.”

“Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end.”