“..a phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities.” — Diana Abu-Jaber Jinn Copy Share Image
“The streets of Aqaba are shell spirals and, on summer nights, crowded and complicated as a woman's heart.” — Diana Abu-Jaber Summer nights Copy Share Image
“When Matussem Ramoud opened his eyes each morning, his wife would still not be there. ” — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“There's the man with his cart who sold me rolls sprinkled with thyme and sesame every morning and then saluted me like… — Diana Abu-Jaber Every morning Copy Share Image
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground” — Diana Abu-Jaber Beauty Copy Share Image
“He believes that this man has looped a bit of the thread-leash through a corner of his soul.” — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos. — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the… — Diana Abu-Jaber Children Copy Share Image
“The moment feels laden with mystery and tension, as if for one second the world has agreed to pay attention to time… — Diana Abu-Jaber Moment Copy Share Image
I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Creative Copy Share Image
If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you… — Diana Abu-Jaber Artistic Copy Share Image
Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to… — Diana Abu-Jaber Book Copy Share Image
“Flour and yolk and cream are all coarse- of the earth. But sugar and air and vanilla are elements of the firmament.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
“She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
As a literary device, sugar and pastry carried so many nuances - the sweetness of the past, the danger of overeating and… — Diana Abu-Jaber Addiction Copy Share Image
I'm constantly at war with myself to quit goofing around, and the internet hasn't helped that any. I've learned that I have… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“I’m in my junior year but I can’t take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the… — Diana Abu-Jaber High school Copy Share Image
“What about Danny Thomas?" Uncle Hal asks. "What happened to him? "Dead," Uncle Abdelhafiz says. "Nice Lebanese boy." "Never mind about Danny… — Diana Abu-Jaber Family relationships Copy Share Image
“The loneliness of the arab is a terrible thing; it is all consuming. It is already present like a little shadow under… — Diana Abu-Jaber Arab Copy Share Image
“On the cutting board there are two peanut butter and red currant jam sandwiches for Emerson and two Serrano ham, shaved cheddar,… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“But Stanley persisted in the kitchen, performing the small yet demanding apprentice's tasks she set for him- removing the skin from piles… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
“Avis puts aside the 'Saint-Honore' and decides to embark on a new pastry. She's assembling ingredients when the phone rings in the… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
“He realizes finally that the boy he's been watching snap his board into the air, then neatly touch down- long, black, gleaming… — Diana Abu-Jaber Beauty Copy Share Image
“Marry, don't marry,' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple strudel. Just don't have your babies… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people… — Diana Abu-Jaber Childhood Copy Share Image
“His expression seems a sort of surrender: the loss of a thing that he has already lost before.” — Diana Abu-Jaber Loss Copy Share Image
Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and… — Diana Abu-Jaber Differences Copy Share Image
“...tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“He tells about his Sudanese roommate at Georgetown who owned a prayer rug with a compass to find Mecca built right into… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“For this cake, I want to mingle the womanly and masculine foods- sugars and meats in particular. The walls must come down.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most… — Diana Abu-Jaber Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“Felice admires the long blue tails of the birds just before they vanish into the trees. That's the way to be, she… — Diana Abu-Jaber Bird Copy Share Image
Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that… — Diana Abu-Jaber Canvas Copy Share Image
“She collects a tray from the kitchen: arranges almond and mango cream puffs, brown sugar lace cookies, and miniature napoleons of vanilla… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
My heritage will always be an element in my work but as I've written, traveled, and lived more, I've found that the… — Diana Abu-Jaber Culture Copy Share Image
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