"She [Raisham] knew as well as I did who had killed that girl. After all, the girl had forsaken her Muslim faith to be baptized a Christian. So the brother, infuriated by the shame this sin had brought upon his family, had obeyed the ancient law of the faithful that those who fall away from their faith must be slain." Page 18.

"I remembered exactly how old I was when I first started learning Arabic so that I could read our holy book: I was four years old, four days old and four hours old. This was the day every Muslim child began to unravel the Arabic script." Page 26.

"Then she [Synnove] said quietly, 'I'm afraid I don't know to much about God, but I do know Him." Page 41.

"Something happened to me as I went through the book; instead of reading the Bible, I found myself living it...