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the blow, the second blow of death, struck on me; tremulous, filmy-eyed as I was, with my wings creased, sitting there on the edge of my broken chrysalis.
“The Israeli state as a Jewish democracy to which Palestinian Arabs have always posed a demographic threat was a state born from European empire, cast in the mold of other European settler colonial projects, and it was both fueled and justified by a history of European racism and antisemitism.”
― Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
“It wasn’t enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them that you cared. And he just didn’t. Not enough.”
― It's Not Summer Without You
― It's Not Summer Without You
“I’ll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.”
― It's Not Summer Without You
― It's Not Summer Without You
“Intimacy, I’ve found, has little to do with romance. Maybe it is the opposite of romance, which is based on a story written by someone else. It is a closeness to another person that requires closeness with oneself. It is not watching lightning strike from the window but being struck by it.”
― Girlhood
― Girlhood
“In the rings of trees. In the wreckage of a planet crumbling to space. In bubbling water. In bee stings and dragonfly wings, in stars. In the depths of lonely woods where I wandered in my youth, staring up—and even then you watched me. You slid back through my life, and I have known you since before I knew you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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