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“diaspora, there were people over here being Palestinian. At checkpoints,”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“After all, in the final analysis, man is a cause.”
― Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories
― Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories
“Nostalgia is an affliction. Someone said that once in front of Alia, and the words reach her now, years later. Like a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just the unbearable losses, but the small things as well. Alia thinks of her bedroom in Nablus. The seashells she filled with bobby pins.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“Widad and Alia and Mustafa, they might have known gunfire and war, but they were protected from it with the armor of wealth. It is what separates them from the refugees in the camps dotting the outskirts of Nablus. Salma still holds her breath, her childhood defense against bad luck, when she has to drive past them.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“Easier, she thinks, to remember nothing, to enter a world already changed, than have it transform before your eyes. In the palaces, the grandparents must sit in their extravagant rooms, remembering sand.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
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