Fady Joudah > Quotes

“Mimesis

My daughter

wouldn’t hurt a spider

That had nested
Between her bicycle handles
For two weeks
She waited
Until it left of its own accord

If you tear down the web I said
It will simply know
This isn’t a place to call home
And you’d get to go biking

She said that’s how others
Become refugees isn’t it?”
― Fady Joudah

“As for the heart
It needs a beginning
The narrative
Burden of events”
― Fady Joudah

“I want to learn how colors choose flowers, not how we.”
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“What is joy? I was told it can be a family that held on to their father’s corpse against the flood so it wouldn’t wash away.”
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“Repetition won’t guarantee wisdom, but cease now before your wisdom is an echo.”
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“In Gaza, a girl and her brother rescued their fish from the rubble of airstrikes.”
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“To those who thought their biggest fear was to outlive their children.”
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“Two mothers said that outliving their kids was their biggest fear.”
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“To see what isn't hard to see, in a world that doesn't.”
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“To those who were killed because they refused to leave their homes to live in tents. To those who were killed on their way to the tents. To those who were killed in their tents with the cats they sheltered.”
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“They did not mean to kill the children. They meant to.”
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“whether visitor or visited
love astounds me

as if you were some higher form
of what I’ve lost and then returns to me

from “I Dreamed You”
― Fady Joudah, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems