“You and I, your mother, Ahlam, we are from up there,' my father continued. 'We come from the stunning stars. We were just born in the wrong place. We were meant to live on another planet. The people who come… — 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
“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
“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
“With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share
“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
“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
“Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share
“One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share
“I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share
“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share
“This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share
