Dark night Quote by Hannah Lillith Assadi

““For those I come from, there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home, the feeling of need for home. We are all waiting for a form of transport, a ship, a saucer to carry us out of the too-dark night.””

Hannah Lillith Assadi

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“I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.”

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“With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.”

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“I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt.”

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“Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora.”

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“One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.”

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