“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 Entire life Copy Share Image
“One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi 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 Change 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 Friendship 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
“Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.” — 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
“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 Dark night 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 Dream 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 Dream 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 Desert 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 Cigarettes 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 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 Blue planet 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
“The instruments were all half desired, half forgotten. It was as if they were left behind by a ghost right in the… — 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 Graffiti 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 meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Childhood Copy Share Image
“I looked at Laura . . . and wondered at how many lives before this life we might have known together.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Best friends 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
