“Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.” — 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
“Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own.” — 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
“With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“The earth spins further from help. Beyond us the heart monitors go on, the fluorescent lights buzz, the commentators shout, the casino… — 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
“I slowly lost any dream for myself. No one warned me of this, that the stars in New York can infect the… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“For those I come from, there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home, the feeling of need for… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“My father, a Palestinian, and my mother, an Israeli, met in a bar in New York. Their encounter was a blue shift.… — Hannah Lillith Assadi 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
“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 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
“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool… — 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 faded out. I was for a moment my father tapping on his cigarette, the way he holds it, crushing it flat.… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled… — 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
“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 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
