Amal Katrib

“Modernity had brought comfort and wealth, but it drowned out the music of creation’s heartbeat.”
― Robert Leonard Reid

“Palestinianism was for Said a condition of chronic exile, exile as agony but also as ethical position. To remain aloof from the group while honouring one’s organic ties to it; to exist between loneliness and alignment, remaining always a bit of a stranger; to resist the resolution of the narrative, the closing of the circle; to keep looking, to not feel too at home.”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

“Travel back to oneself… I had always imagined that the word referred to forward linear travel… now I wonder if the trajectory might not be circular; you spiral around and, somewhere behind where you were, you come upon your former self, a self that is somehow changed. You’re a child again, yet not exactly: a creature who possesses something you once possessed—innocence, perhaps, or courage or joy—but who is equipped this time around to hold on to whatever it was you lost.”
― Robert Leonard Reid, Arctic Circle: Birth and Rebirth in the Land of the Caribou

“President Dwight Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence);”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark