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“diaspora, there were people over here being Palestinian. At checkpoints,”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“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
“bordered on the majestic. Souad watched”
― 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
“How tiny our lives are, he thinks, swelling to impossible size with love, then shrinking again. He puts an arm around his daughter and pulls her close, this girl he will lose eventually to something. She settles against him. For long moments, they sit together in the dark, watching the”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
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