Quotes from Deborah Rodriguez

Women are like tea bags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water. — ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

People, even those closest to you, are surprising...Nobody is everything they seem.

It was as if you could see into the sky, through it's layers and into it's core. Layers of stars, translucent blanket upon blanket. The beauty was overwhelming. The wind blew her hair, and she willed herself to stop, to breathe, to feel.

The eyes of a man betrayed his heart.

Look what love does...This was the real Islam, the Islam of love, not hate. Muhammad would be proud.

I am rich, thank you very much. And you are excused for being shortsighted. It is Americans, you British, and all the other Westerners who think they know what's right and what's wrong, who make money from the sale of heroin and opium with one hand, and yet pay mullahs to preach that growing poppies is against the Koran with the other." He laughed. "Hypocrites all!

She wasn't sure who were family & who were friends, and maybe they all were both, and maybe it didn't matter one bit.

It is the power of a girl with a book that is the best weapon for progress

These new people were her people. So what that she'd only recently met these women. In their hearts they were all the same: women yearning for rich lives, someone to love & someone to love them in return, friends to laugh with, drink with & cry with.

Shame does something to a man. It makes him forget those he loves. It makes a good man do bad things.

Maybe life isn't about being one way or the other. Perhaps the answers we are looking for come from everywhere–our faith, our brains, and our hearts.

I was tired. Tired of men, tired of moving, tired of being scared, tired of being confused. But who was I kissing? I'm not one to sit quietly, anywhere.

It was almost as if she was still the bewildred girl of fourteen who wasn't ready to be an adult.

The moon is made round by the right hand of God. The moon is made crescent by His left. But it is God's heart that makes my love for you forever.

It is the power of a girl with a book that is the best weapon for progress. (...) Because with educated women comes prosperity. And with our voices comes mercy. And with our strength comes change.

Remember that life is short and full of surprises. If you wait too long, opportunities fade like setting sun.

What is in our hearts is never a one-way street. Only as children when we're too young to understand the signs do we love unrequitedly. If you love, it's because you feel its power reflected back on you.

himself up, and everything around him, two streets away.

out why or explore their options. Then she met Wakil. It was at a conference her husband had attended at the U.S. consulate in Afghanistan for

You will find that thing that makes you unafraid to die. That important thing that makes your life of value.

Precisamos fazer as coisas que achamos que não conseguimos.

O que importa é a rapidez com que você faz o que sua alma manda.

Miluješ, zem?eš a mezitím se snažíš žít, jak nejlíp dokážeš.

A vida muda num instante.