“My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“What if we love the black hole in the center of all things? What if we are people like that? People who… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“We are all cursed. We live in the era of the curse. A world that cannot be fixed. The best thing would… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I looked at Laura . . . and wondered at how many lives before this life we might have known together.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I first understood why Christians prayed for a savior in the form of a beautiful man. He had absolved me of the blue-streaked blond.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you.… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
