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“Fatima stared at Sadig and opened her mouth to scream at him that it was all of those things and more: it was the betrayal, the living of a lie, of false modesty and piety, it was the injustice heavily handed down with no right. It was the punishment that had fallen on her brother because of what someone else had done.”
― Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt

“Mohamed Altahir was exhausted. He had lost count of how many hours he had been awake. He couldn’t remember the last time he had been up for this long, or when there had been this much chaos in such a short time. Their village was a quiet, normal one, and they led quiet, normal lives.”
― Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt

“When Nyamakeem looked into Sulafa’s anguished face that afternoon, she saw herself. She felt her own heart breaking at the loss of the child, the son of the man who had killed her son. She looked at Sulafa and felt the fire in her heart die.”
― Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt

“Fatima was dragging her feet. She hated houses of mourning. And the only thing worse than a house of mourning was a house that was waiting for a body to appear because without a body, the actual mourning could not begin or end.”
― Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt