love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably. Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared… — 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
We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“She loved beyond measure, When I was young I thought her cold. But in time I came to understand that she was… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“It is the kind of love you can know only if you have felt the intense hunger that makes your body eat… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue? — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins. — 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
Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them.… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has cometo live with us like a family member who… — 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
