"It will hurt, but that pain will pass and God will know you're willing to endure pain for him. A man has to endure pain, Ismail. But it will pass." — Chap. 1

"He didn't know what it was about fifteen-year-old girls, but he had never known a child so rude to her parents." — Chap. 1

"He wanted to tell her how beautiful she looked, but he didn't want her to start acting pretty. Beauty attracts the wrong type of attention." — Chap. 5

"There were people in the world that never had to face death, except in old age, when death is almost comforting. But they never had to face the violence of a young death." — Chap. 14

"No matter who you were, no matter how weak and helpless, once you were dead you knew what it meant to be with God and the living did not know and...