“I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.” — 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 have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“His presence suddenly made things feel off-kilter, gorgeous as if being crushed in lush velvet while cascading off the edge of a… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because… — 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
“the rules were to not offer any explanations, to say as little as possible, to not ask for anything, to work for… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the corner of my eye, I saw a girl running through the loft. A see-through girl, a silhouette. She looked… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“He could guide anyone to the point of no return. He'd corral them with poetry, music, invoking the alcoholic gods that all… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“No one had told me that you can wake up, years passed, and not understand the person you are, the things you… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Like hunting for a dead beloved's face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before.” — 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… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Look at the lonely fisherman,' my father says. 'Look at his view,' my mother says.” — 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
“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
“When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.” — 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
“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
