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“Haneen once compared Palestine to an exposed part of an electronic network, where someone has cut the rubber coating with a knife to show the wires and currents underneath. She probably didn’t say that exactly, but that was the image she had brought into my mind. That this place revealed something about the whole world.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“He’s saying, it’s a choice between life and death. But really, what Mariam is pointing out is - there’s a third way. You can be a ghost.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“Betrayal was not the word, it had too many syllables.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“As I knelt down to accept the dog’s eager affection, I sensed Philip was looking at me .. There was a heightened quality to being noticed that I coveted. I moved my fingers down Lola’s back, felt Philip follow the path of my hand. His face inched downward as I unknotted my sneaker’s laces.”
― Thomas Grattan, In Tongues