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Book cover for Mornings in Jenin
As happened with so many Arabs and Muslims in this country, neighbors and co-workers shunned me. We were proxies for the perpetrators.
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Elif Shafak
“that is what migrations and relocations do to us: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don’t simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again.”
Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak
“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.”
Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak
“You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts.”
Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
tags: grief

Elif Shafak
“To immigrants and exiles everywhere,
the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless,
And to the trees we left behind,
rooted in our memories ...”
Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

Ali Hazelwood
“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

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