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“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
“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
“diaspora, there were people over here being Palestinian. At checkpoints,”
― 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
“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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