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"The name at the top of the letter is mine."

him opening the door for her makes me wonder if he actually set it up

"Everybody lies and everybody dies. Those are two of the only things you can be certain of in an uncertain world."

chapter 21 might just be a new favourite

note to self: CHAPTER 15 😛😛

"she did not have the luxury of curling up into mourning."

it’s really something to realise that mourning truly is a luxury and these people don’t have it 💔

not sure i trust jane tbh

i’m sorry did that just say it was a torso? A TORSO?! a single detached torso?? what is wrong with him 😟

'And I read this book recently, about a woman who married a guy like that, and it turned out he was a ... well, he was a psychopath.'

how funny, so am i

ew

oh he knows

"Food was the language Mama spoke most fluently"

just causally describing every single arab mother

"Living in the present tense was the only was to stay alive."

BECAUSE HE. LEFT. YOU. WITHOUT. A. CAR. SEAT. FOR. YOUR. BABY. MARTHA THATS WHY

ok whattt??? how many women are there

'I don’t know who sold the homeland, but I know who paid the price.'
- Mahmoud Darwish

wow the complainer feeling victimised and threatened by a man speaking up about his country is evident enough that they’re israeli

'There can be no co-existence with Zionism. Zionism is racism. Nothing less than dismantling the Zionist state. It has and never had a right to exist.'

everything he said was facts which is exactly why they have a problem and want to silence him

pg 249 of 266

'This is not a Jewish-Muslim issue! Palestinians haven't lost their lives! Over two hundred people - sixty-six children, Peter - have been killed by Israeli bombs! You do not get to describe that as the loss of Palestinian and Jewish lives. You do not get to two-sides a nuclear, US-armed occupier and an occupied refugee population! You do not get to equate the coloniser with the colonised!'

pg 244 of 266

'He had, at least, heard her voice.'

this better not be foreshadowing what i think it is 😭😭😭
pg 229 of 266

i dunno i don’t trust peter i feel like he’s gonna twist her words

pg 225 of 266

can’t believe he has the audacity to emotionally manipulate this man who is only fighting for his family and then claim they’re all victims.

(turns out there was more pages in my version than i thought so - pg 213 of 266)

'He insists on sleeping on top of the rubble. He refuses to leave. Once there’s a ceasefire, he’ll rebuild it as many times as they bomb it. But he’ll never leave.'

that is the definition of palestinians. so full of patriotism, loyalty, determination, strength, so very admirable

'Confronted with genocide, ethnic cleansing, occupation and apartheid, claiming that you are not taking sides is taking sides.'

'Their fucking existential crisis. Their projection makes me want to puke.'

same girl same

not the neighbour being upset her son fails at everything even drug dealing 😭