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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

“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

“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