“Life had collected her pieces and returned her to love’s source. There had been no coincidence.” — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another? — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history. — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“We were existing somewhere between life and death, with neither accepting us fully.” — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t long after that when I went into the quiet blue, that place without time, where I could soak up all… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“Love cannot reconcile with deception. And it cannot become inured to an existence paid for with the currency of another’s misery” — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed. — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“We’re all born with the greatest treasures we’ll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“In the process of trying to steady my gait in a life that shook with uncertainty, I learned to make peace with… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“We’re all born with the greatest treasures we’ll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme. — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated it for… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fallen. The… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“Baba was gone forever. My mother kept waiting for him until the day she died, just as she waited to return home, just as… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, Haj Salem told me that answers can be found in the sky if you look long and hard enough.” — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.” — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history. — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“Yousef had only been gone forty days, but he looked ten years older. His body had become slight, and seeing him like that put… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“Life had collected her pieces and returned her to love’s source. There had been no coincidence.” — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“Though they lived with the indignities of dispossession and military occupation, Huda sang with an unassailable freedom that comes only to those with unwavering… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
