Tyara

“And they would not believe me precisely because they knew what I said was true.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“This was what it meant to be exiled and disinherited—to straddle closed borders, never whole anywhere.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“A person is courageous so long as he has no need for courage, but he collapses when the issue becomes real, and he is forced to understand courage as an act of “surrender,” a detachment from human involvement, and is content himself with being a spectator rather than a participant in life.”
― Ghassan Kanafani, ما تبقى لكم