Lamiya
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As happened with so many Arabs and Muslims in this country, neighbors and co-workers shunned me. We were proxies for the perpetrators.
“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― The Love Hypothesis
― The Love Hypothesis
“To immigrants and exiles everywhere,
the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless,
And to the trees we left behind,
rooted in our memories ...”
― The Island of Missing Trees
the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless,
And to the trees we left behind,
rooted in our memories ...”
― The Island of Missing Trees
“If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“If families resemble trees, as they say, arborescent structures with entangled roots and individual branches jutting out at awkward angles, family traumas are like thick, translucent resin dripping from a cut in the bark. They trickle down generations.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“People assume it’s a matter of personality, the difference between optimists and pessimists. But I believe it all comes down to an inability to forget. The greater your powers of retention, the slimmer your chances at optimism.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
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