- Nazneen Ahmed: [narrating] No one spoke of our mother's death... and I remembered her saying: "If Allah wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men."
- Nazneen Ahmed: We must not run from our fate. What cannot be changed must be borne. The test of life is to endure.
- Nazneen Ahmed: No one told me there are different kinds of love. The kind that starts deep and slowly wears away; that seems you will never use it up and then one day it is finished. Then there is the kind you do not notice at first but which adds a little bit to itself every day like an oyster makes a pearl, grain by grain, a jewel from the sand. That is the kind I have come to know.
- Chanu Ahmed: Anything is possible when you are young. Then you get older and the thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible anymore, you just need some things to be certain.
- Chanu Ahmed: All these years I dreamed of going home a big man. Only now, when it is finished for me, I realized what is important. As long as I have a family with me, I'm as strong as any man alive.
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