Mariam

"Forgiveness is a luxury."

"She understood now what her mother had meant."

"There is strength in silence."

"Women like us. We endure."

"The world had no use for women like me."

"The children are reason enough to endure."

"Women are the nations of the world. Without women, there is no world."

"Suffering is like a caravan crossing the desert. Each sorrow is a camel."

"It will pass, Mariam. It will all pass."

"I am a ghost in this house. A ghost that cooks and cleans and gives."

"I deserve to be miserable."

"Behind every man, there is a woman."

"I am a sinner beyond redemption."

"This is women's place. Among the bones and the blood."

"I've already given up the best years of my life for nothing."

"The trouble with running away is that you take yourself with you."

"I do not accept your apology."

"We are all prisoners in this place."

"What is the sense in loving the dead?"

"It always hurts more to have and lose than never to have had at all."

"Sometimes we must do unpleasant things to survive."

"Despair is a luxury we cannot afford."

"A harami has no honor, no family name to protect."

"Suffering can break you or it can make you stronger."

"Forgiveness is the only path to peace."

"The past cannot be changed, only accepted."

"Dignity cannot be taken; it can only be surrendered."

"Patience is the price of survival."

"Suffering is like a vast ocean. You cannot cross it by swimming; you must learn to survive on it."

"A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb."