“I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“You and I, your mother, Ahlam, we are from up there,' my father continued. 'We come from the stunning stars. We were… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.” — 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 know you.… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
