Alana Saab > Quotes

“When I was born, god scattered me endlessly across the universe. I often find myself in notepads and sticky notes, in the margins of used novels and in the scribbles of bathroom stalls. When I recognize a piece as myself, I am delighted. And no matter how odd or unsettling I find the new fragment to be, I braid it into myself without a doubt that it belongs to me.”
― Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

“My new therapist furrows her eyebrows and tilts her head to the side like a good, curious dog and asks, Was That God Or Was That Just An Instagram Post?”
― Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

“Can you give me an example of other spiritual reasons for events? I want to say, like that frizz in your hair. There’s a spiritual reason for that, but I don’t know you well enough to know what it is.”
― Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

“Today, if someone asked me what, if not a bird, if not fire, is love to me, I would most likely say, surrender.”
― Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me