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“It is not enough
to say 'love' in Arabic.
You must say
'be the thing that buries me.”
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to say 'love' in Arabic.
You must say
'be the thing that buries me.”
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“I was born a few months before the Nakba. You know this. You know what it means? It means it was already my reality. I didn’t know what it was before.”
― Enter Ghost
― Enter Ghost
“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.”
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“What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That's all life is, he wants to tell her. It's continuing.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just the unbearable losses, but the small things as well.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
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