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“There’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life.”
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

"it’s not that I didn’t want to die, it’s just that I couldn’t take the fear of facing death, of approaching the end."

“In order to gain something, you have to lose something.”

"Love has to end. That’s all. And even though everyone knows it they still fall in love. I guess it’s the same with life. We all know it has to end some day, but even so we act as if we’re going to live forever. Like love, life is beautiful because it has to end."

"We treat you so much better than we have to; why are you so angry? Why did you make us do this to you?"

"Against those people, those lesser people, anything can be justifiably done. The point is to flaunt permission."

"Life goes on, for some but not others."

"One day the killing will be over, either because the oppressed will have their liberation or because there will be so few left to kill. We will be expected to forget any of it ever happened, to acknowledge it if need be but only in harmless, perfunctory ways. Many of us will, if only as a kind of psychological self-defense. So much lives and dies by the grace of endless forgetting."

"The system does not work for you, was never intended to work for you, but as an act of magnanimity on our part, you may choose the degree to which it works against you."

"This is the world we’ve created, a world in which one privileged sliver consumes, insatiable, and the best everyone else can hope for is to not be consumed."

"There is, however, everything to be gained from empty sloganeering, and so when traveling through most every capital in the Arab world, one is greeted with massive Palestinian flags hanging from the buildings and across the billboards, and yet all this is coupled with the knowledge that, beyond placating the very real rage of the citizenry, there is very little impetus to do anything more substantive."

"One in which every round of violence is the sole consequence of the last Palestinian act of violence. One in which tens of thousands of dead children have only their support of Hamas to blame—an organization that last won an election before those kids were born.*

"But for now, it’s fine. For now, a motorist made late for work or a colonizer’s portrait disfigured provokes more of a political response than any number of dead foreign kids can."

"You are free to say so long as what you say is acceptable."

“Again I’m angry, and again I understand my anger is worthless.”
Watching footage of people being bombed, killed, and starved, left without hospitals and torn from their own families, makes you lose hope in humanity. You feel overwhelming anger and a desperate urge to help, yet there is nothing you can do. And that helplessness only makes you angrier, And so the anger grows heavier, knowing it cannot save anyone...

"I saw the terrible wrath of the place, saw it obliterate hundreds of thousands of people with names and ethnicity and religion like mine, knew for certain that there were deep ugly cracks in the bedrock of this thing called “the free world.” And yet I believed the cracks could be fixed, that the thing at the core, whatever it was, was salvageable."

"This is an account of something else, something that, for an entire generation of not just Arabs or Muslims or Brown people but rather all manner of human beings from all parts of the world, fundamentally changed during this season of completely preventable horror. This is an account of a fracture, a breaking away from the notion that the polite, Western liberal ever stood for anything at all."

"While the land is still being stolen and the natives are still being killed, any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization."