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when calamity strikes and puts normal life under strain, feelings that have been stifled by everyday evasion can break free and make it easy to talk where before it felt impossible I wondered if this was always happening in Palestine, where calamity was always so close Or whether it was different for those who, living here, endured it without respite, for whom constant calamity was itself the condition of normal life

— Sep 23, 2024 12:32AM

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I'm shivering, this was incredible

— Sep 23, 2024 01:45AM

Rodrigo is on page 270 of 336

‘But if I’m here for Palestine, then why am I there ? Why am I not here?’ She gestured at the room. She meant the West Bank.

— Sep 23, 2024 12:49AM

Rodrigo is on page 270 of 336

Public space hewn from the rubble of public spaces.

— Sep 23, 2024 12:00AM

Rodrigo is on page 132 of 336

I hate the word miscarriage. I hate the suggestion of responsibility, of carrying wrongly, like a miscarriage of justice

— Sep 22, 2024 06:35AM

Rodrigo is on page 47 of 336

Looking back I wonder if boredom was not in some way a defence, if on a certain level I found it more stressful and confusing than I was conscious of, and my distraction protected me, keeping my mind clean from the violence.

— Sep 22, 2024 04:58AM

Rodrigo is on page 37 of 336

‘He says, I didn’t realise you were Palestinian, and I say, Is everything okay with you? And he doesn’t say anything, he just looks at me like this, like, that’s a stupid question. Sort of angry, sort of wounded.

This part hits even harder after the presentation of Maya Wind

— Sep 22, 2024 04:44AM