Quotes from Shamim Sarif

Chapter Twenty

ACCLAIM FOR "DESPITE THE FALLING SNOW

Chapter Twenty Three

uninviting, inscrutable,

slim volumes;

Nevertheless, she likes it,

You're not used to it, are you?

The night was late already, and she wanted to be up early the next morning to catch the first mail to Pretoria.

I like the country fine," said Rehmat dryly. "It's the people that bother me.

Hani suspiró. La frase prometía. ¿Podía permitirse sonreír? - Quiero decir… -continuó la mujer-. ¡Algunas de mis mejores amigas también son libanesas! Cerrando los ojos un momento, Hani descubrió que sí podía.

She felt at times that she was living in a different universe, breathing a different atmosphere from other people, and as she grew up she found her refuge in work and in books.

Love is a strange thing. Sometimes it springs up where you least expect it. You can't control it. And I think you just have to act on it. Encourage it,

She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.