“..a phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities.” — Diana Abu-Jaber Jinn Copy Share Image
“The moment feels laden with mystery and tension, as if for one second the world has agreed to pay attention to time… — Diana Abu-Jaber Moment Copy Share Image
“His expression seems a sort of surrender: the loss of a thing that he has already lost before.” — Diana Abu-Jaber Loss Copy Share Image
If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos. — Diana Abu-Jaber 15 minutes Copy Share Image
“You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the… — Diana Abu-Jaber Children Copy Share Image
“He believes that this man has looped a bit of the thread-leash through a corner of his soul.” — Diana Abu-Jaber Believes Man Copy Share Image
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground” — Diana Abu-Jaber Beauty Copy Share Image
“When Matussem Ramoud opened his eyes each morning, his wife would still not be there. ” — Diana Abu-Jaber First-sentence Copy Share Image
“The streets of Aqaba are shell spirals and, on summer nights, crowded and complicated as a woman's heart.” — Diana Abu-Jaber Summer nights Copy Share Image
“Felice admires the long blue tails of the birds just before they vanish into the trees. That's the way to be, she… — Diana Abu-Jaber Bird Copy Share Image
“She collects a tray from the kitchen: arranges almond and mango cream puffs, brown sugar lace cookies, and miniature napoleons of vanilla… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
My heritage will always be an element in my work but as I've written, traveled, and lived more, I've found that the… — Diana Abu-Jaber Culture Copy Share Image
Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that… — Diana Abu-Jaber Canvas Copy Share Image
“He tells about his Sudanese roommate at Georgetown who owned a prayer rug with a compass to find Mecca built right into… — Diana Abu-Jaber Mecca Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most… — Diana Abu-Jaber Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“For this cake, I want to mingle the womanly and masculine foods- sugars and meats in particular. The walls must come down.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
I'm constantly at war with myself to quit goofing around, and the internet hasn't helped that any. I've learned that I have… — Diana Abu-Jaber Drafts Copy Share Image
“He had a satisfying wholeness about him, American good looks like a baseball player's- level shoulders, a pale shock of hair. A… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-and-brian Copy Share Image
I heard friends and strangers saying, "You don't look Arab - what are you supposed to be?" It really is a tired… — Diana Abu-Jaber Arab Copy Share Image
“I mean, he could blow old Capitalist-Stevie here away." Felice doesn't respond. She pulls the backs of her ankles in close to… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
“The first time Avis knelt on a chair and stirred eggs into flour to make a vanilla cake, she had an inkling… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
“There's a time when things go out of tune. It's not all the time. It's not even a lot of the time.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Money Copy Share Image
“How would you feel about doing a little something in the kitchen?" Avis asks tentatively. Brian laughs. He used to assist her… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-and-brian Copy Share Image
“She wonders sometimes if it's a sort of flaw or lack in her - the inability to lose herself in someone else.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Falling in love Copy Share Image
“She thinks of Stanley's colored pencil drawings of theoretical businesses: a cafe, a bookshop, and, always, a grocery store. When she was… — Diana Abu-Jaber Business Copy Share Image
“There's the man with his cart who sold me rolls sprinkled with thyme and sesame every morning and then saluted me like… — Diana Abu-Jaber Every morning Copy Share Image
As a literary device, sugar and pastry carried so many nuances - the sweetness of the past, the danger of overeating and… — Diana Abu-Jaber Addiction Copy Share Image
“...tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they… — Diana Abu-Jaber Tasting Copy Share Image
Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and… — Diana Abu-Jaber Differences Copy Share Image
“I’m in my junior year but I can’t take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the… — Diana Abu-Jaber High school Copy Share Image
Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to… — Diana Abu-Jaber Book Copy Share Image
I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Creative Copy Share Image
If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you… — Diana Abu-Jaber Artistic Copy Share Image
“She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage… — Diana Abu-Jaber Awake Copy Share Image
“Flour and yolk and cream are all coarse- of the earth. But sugar and air and vanilla are elements of the firmament.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
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