Kathleen

“The idea that walking away is childish and unproductive is predicated on the inability to imagine anything but a walking away from, never a walking away toward--never that there might exist another destination. The walking away is not nihilism, it's not cynicism, it's not doing nothing--it's a form of engagement more honest, more soul-affirming, than anything the system was ever prepared to offer.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“A man says to her: Inti zay el amar. You are like the moon. Again, translation fails. There is no English equivalent to the lineage of this phrase, a lineage that runs through generations of old movies and love songs and family gatherings. Listen to the sly setting joy and pleading, raw pleading that carries the words as this man tells the girl who lived when so many others died that she is beautiful beyond the bounds of this world.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“Grief (the biggest grief in the world) is like—What? What is it that happens to a person? I’ve always felt it is like a scream living inside me. It’s gotten a bit softer over time”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“I am certain some readers will find those previous lines uncomfortable or even incendiary, but that is precisely the point: language comparing Zionists to Nazis is scrutinized—even penalized—more than the government policies and military actions that beg for the analogy to be made.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal