“It was so pure, the snow, the purest of all powders, I thought, so pure it must be from elsewhere, from another… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was… — 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… — 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
“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 Image
“I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace her, kiss her even,… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I asked the boy who wept what it felt like, crystal meth, the prettiest name for a drug besides heroin. Crystal methamphetamine.… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“You know the most common phrase in the movies is 'let's get out of here?” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“What if we love the black hole in the center of all things? What if we are people like that? People who… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“She crooned on until her cigarette was gone. The ash in the wind blew around us like hesitant snow.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Through my sudden tears, the train lights smeared like shooting stars. Lying before the rippling blue window, below the slurred lights of… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“We are all cursed. We live in the era of the curse. A world that cannot be fixed. The best thing would… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“The bad angels were the jinn, and the good angels were the jinn too, and we spoke to them both in the… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I don't think I'm from this galaxy at all. I believe I came from the Andromeda galaxy, not so far, but far… — 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
