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“The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Common Law

“What I am trying to say is: it is possible to reform your idea of yourself. It's the only real inner work there is–going back and revisiting your horrors, and holding yourself accountable and moving forward.”
― Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

“I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another.”
― Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

“Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home.”
― Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces