Helene Cardona > Quotes

“In dreaming
we travel to a place where all is forgiven.”
― Helene Cardona, Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de mes Ames Animales

“We are consciousness wanting to expand.”
― Helene Cardona, Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de mes Ames Animales

“The ultimate aim is reverence for the universe.
The ultimate aim is love for life.
The ultimate aim is harmony within oneself.”
― Helene Cardona, Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de mes Ames Animales

“I now wear the memory of nothingness
a piece of white sail wrapped like second skin.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

“I become ocean, mercury, silver
shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

“You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

“We packed
whole lives into bundles in search
of what chooses us, what wants to come
back to the surface, what needs to be said.
We had so many dreams
we didn’t know what to make of them.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

“On the wall of time to come
a window appears.
I open it, let angels in.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

“I hear my mother’s voice echo
you’re all the sunlight
that’s ever been in my life.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

“The Abduction refers to an autobiographical event in Al-Masri’s life. When, as a young Arab
woman living in France, she decides to separate from her husband with whom she has a child,
the father kidnaps the baby and returns to Syria. The Abduction is the story of a woman who is
denied the basic right to raise her child. Al-Masri won’t see her son for thirteen years. These are
haunting poems of love, despair, and hope in a delicate, profound and powerful book on
intimacy, a mother’s rights, war, exile, and freedom.”
― Helene Cardona, The Abduction