
“First no tooth fairy
then no santa
and no god
and then your parents are only human
your government is corrupt
and the universe is a hologram.”
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then no santa
and no god
and then your parents are only human
your government is corrupt
and the universe is a hologram.”
―
“There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We talk online, we ‘friend’ each other when we don’t know who we are really talking to – we fuck strangers. We mistake almost anything for a relationship, a community of sorts, and yet, when we are with our families, in our communities, we are clueless, we short-circuit and immediately dive back into the digitized version – it is easier, because we can be both our truer selves and our fantasy selves all at once, with each carrying equal weight.”
― May We Be Forgiven
― May We Be Forgiven

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
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“a lot of happiness lead a person to disappointments.”
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“Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content in our mothers' arms, having lost all our learning and all sense of disappointment. If only we could die, she says, not knowing we'd ever grieved.”
― The Swan Gondola
― The Swan Gondola

مجموعة يتشارك بها قرّاء مدينة رام الله قدائاتهم وأفكارهم حول ما يخص الكتاب والقراءة

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