Status Updates From Dunia Tanpa Cinta

“Mi vida vuelve a mí en imágenes, aromas y sonidos, pero nunca en sentimientos. No siento nada.”

“Era probable que me viera justo como los occidentales imaginan a una terrorista: descuidada, peluda, oscura y fea”

“You are everything, Nahr.”

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He said, “I won’t lie to you, it’s hard to hear some things. But I love you, Nahr, more than you can imagine. Whatever you want to tell me will go into that well of love.”

“You think that resistance against a colonizing military occupation is like dancing?” The derisiveness in his voice cut me … “I think whatever we start should be with the goal of igniting imaginations for people to act in their own ways, and trust that they will imagine what we’ve not.”

“No one had ever kissed me with such love, and it occurred to me that happiness can reach such depths that it becomes akin to grief.”