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“I placed my niece at her sleeping mother's breast and watched my brother, turgid with affection, look back and forth from his wife and to his newborn daughter. In that refugee camp, which Israel would label a "breeding ground of terrorists" and "a festering den of terror," I bore witness to a love that dwarfed immensity itself.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“Arabic profanities are often nothing more than a gratuitous reference to the anatomy of a female relative. Simply the mention of it."Go, fool! Your mother's pussy". Another, Are you waiting for the red carpet to move your damn car? Your sister's pussy!" And there's always "Curses upon your father and your father's father!”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“The midwife blinked back her own tears. "I don't know But these will be difficult days for your family. The midwife was right: the days that followed were terrible and traumatic. Yet when I think back to this time, I remember very little. Perhaps this is the mind's way of protecting us from events that are so devastating we would otherwise lose all reason. The same way a lizard, if its body is threatened, will drop its tail, providing a distraction to the predator in order with its life. And grief, for anyone who has ever experienced it, is exactly like a predator. It steals first your happiness, and then- if you allow it everything else.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Spy