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> [“Yousef had only been gone forty days, but he looked ten years older. His body had become slight, and seeing him like that put an awful pain in my heart.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/yousef-had-only-been-gone-forty-days-but-he-looked-ten-years-older/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

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## More by Susan Abulhawa

> [Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/israeli-occupation-exposes-us-very-young-to-the-extremes-of-our/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/i-have-always-found-it-difficult-not-to-be-moved-by-jerusalem-even/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fallen. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/i-grieved-three-thousand-times-then-i-grieved-for-myself-a-lonely/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/do-you-know-mother-that-haj-salem-was-buried-alive-in-his-home-does/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“Baba was gone forever. My mother kept waiting for him until the day she died, just as she waited to return home, just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/baba-was-gone-forever-my-mother-kept-waiting-for-him-until-the-day/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/the-soldiers-in-my-life-had-raised-the-bar-for-bad-guys/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“When I was a child, Haj Salem told me that answers can be found in the sky if you look long and hard enough.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/when-i-was-a-child-haj-salem-told-me-that-answers-can-be-found-in-the/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/and-if-our-hands-should-meet-in-another-dream-we-shall-build-another/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/an-instant-can-crush-a-brain-and-change-the-course-of-life-the-course/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“Yousef had only been gone forty days, but he looked ten years older. His body had become slight, and seeing him like that put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/yousef-had-only-been-gone-forty-days-but-he-looked-ten-years-older/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“Life had collected her pieces and returned her to love’s source. There had been no coincidence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/life-had-collected-her-pieces-and-returned-her-to-love-s-source-there/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“Though they lived with the indignities of dispossession and military occupation, Huda sang with an unassailable freedom that comes only to those with unwavering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/though-they-lived-with-the-indignities-of-dispossession-and-military/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“Still, the refugee camp of Jenin remained as it had been, a one-square-mile patch of earth, excised from time and imprisoned in that endless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/still-the-refugee-camp-of-jenin-remained-as-it-had-been-a-one-square/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“How was it that a man could not walk onto his own property, visit the grave of his wife, eat the fruits of forty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/how-was-it-that-a-man-could-not-walk-onto-his-own-property-visit-the/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

> [“He took in a premeditated breath, closed his eyes, and exhaled into the nye at his lips, playing a new tune. It was not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-abulhawa/he-took-in-a-premeditated-breath-closed-his-eyes-and-exhaled-into-the/)

[Susan Abulhawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-abulhawa/)

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