Quote: "Get out of my house" she yelled. She threw herself at the soldiers with such force that they both fell to the ground. She swung at them with her fists until she was knocked aside." P. 32
Quote: "What will you teach?" "Field hockey," Parvana replied "Mrs. Weera was a physical education teacher." The idea of holding a secret firld hockey school in their apartment was so ridiculous that everyone started to laugh." P.100
Quote: "One afternoon, Parvana was about to shake out her blanket before going home when she noticed a spot of colour on the grey wool. She bent down to pick it up. It was a small square of embroidered cloth, no more than two inches long and an inch wide. Parvana had never seen it before. As she wondered where it had come from, her eyes went up to the blacked-out window where she thought she had seen a flicker of movement a few weeks before. There was no movement now." P. 93