Zahraa

“Motherhood doesn’t suit me, she once confessed to Budur, drunk. I don’t have the stomach for not knowing what comes next.”
― Hala Alyan, Salt Houses

“So they’ve seen their parents up close, as one does with statues in Florence. The cracked toes and chalky masonry.”
― Hala Alyan, Salt Houses

“What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That's all life is, he wants to tell her. It's continuing.”
― Hala Alyan, Salt Houses

“Read. Be a guest in other worlds.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny