Michelle

“To write is to know that you are not at home.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“But to paraphrase the ever-paraphraseable Freud, who said something to the effect that when you speak about the past you lie with every breath you take, I will say this: When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“She can be ornery now and then, vain for sure, petulant and impetuous, silly at times, ill disposed toward the help, even malicious and malevolent when angry, but, still, she has always been the one for me.”
― Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati