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

“My whole life I’d been aware of Haneen’s stronger moral compass; it made me afraid to confide in her until the very last moment, until I absolutely needed to. I also wanted to resist her, the way a child resists a parent and at the same time absorbs their wisdom; I wanted to sulk in her second bedroom and feel better with the secret muffled gladness that someone was holding me to account.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“One night she extemporised upon the broader risk that art might deaden resistance, by softening suffering’s blows through representing it.”
― 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