“My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.” — 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… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace her, kiss her even,… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“You know the most common phrase in the movies is 'let's get out of here?” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever… — 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
“I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“His presence suddenly made things feel off-kilter, gorgeous as if being crushed in lush velvet while cascading off the edge of a… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“She crooned on until her cigarette was gone. The ash in the wind blew around us like hesitant snow.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Through my sudden tears, the train lights smeared like shooting stars. Lying before the rippling blue window, below the slurred lights of… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“For those I come from, there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home, the feeling of need for… — 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
“The bad angels were the jinn, and the good angels were the jinn too, and we spoke to them both in the… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I don't think I'm from this galaxy at all. I believe I came from the Andromeda galaxy, not so far, but far… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
