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“I wanted to describe to him how the emotional intimacy growing between us was shattering my heart in the most life-affirming ways, but I didn’t have the right words, except to say that I loved him, which wasn’t nearly enough.”
― Against the Loveless World
― Against the Loveless World
“It seemed to me that fate was inherited, like eye color. I wondered if she had felt the same disorientation that now ruled my days. Had it been all she could think about—the incomprehensibility of forced, permanent displacement?”
― Against the Loveless World
― Against the Loveless World
“But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet.”
― Against the Loveless World
― Against the Loveless World
“A new sort of grief burrows into me, a cloistered, unreachable, immutable ache. I can’t see, smell, or embrace it. It just lodges in me, taking up space, a thing within a prison within a prisoner within the Cube.”
― Against the Loveless World
― Against the Loveless World
“ما يصنع أعدائي بي، أنا جنتي في قلبي، وبستاني في صدري، أين رحت فهي معي لا تفارقني، أنا حبسي خلوة، وقتلي شهادة، وإخراجي من بلدي سياحة.”
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Huwaida’s 2025 Year in Books
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