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“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
― The Selection
― The Selection
“I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fallen. The reverence for their loss, for their children's loss. It was eloquent and grand. So moving and charged with solidarity...On September eleventh, I faced the last moments of your father's life. I saw him in every person who tried to jump and every body they pulled from the rubble. And I saw myself as I was never allowed to be, consoled, understood, and loved.”
― Mornings in Jenin
― Mornings in Jenin
“We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her”
― Mornings in Jenin
― Mornings in Jenin
“Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.”
― Mornings in Jenin
― Mornings in Jenin
“America Singer, one day you will fall asleep in my arms every night. And you'll wake up to my kisses every morning.”
― The Selection
― The Selection
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