Books Quote by Leylah Attar

“Want some of this?” He held out his burrito: chargrilled beef with cumin, garlic and lime juice.”

— Leylah Attar

“How about Papas Locas? Crazy potatoes?” he asked. The vendor was roasting large potatoes in foil, mashing them with butter and fresh cheese, and…

— Leylah Attar

“My grandma used to say that people born on the same day are two halves of the same soul”

— Leylah Attar

“Growing old isn’t for sissies,” she said softly. “You lose the people you love. Over and over again. Some get taken away from you.…

— Leylah Attar

“I tried to imagine what it would feel like, grieving for someone in a place where things kept growing, where new life burst through…

— Leylah Attar

“I feel like a tree exposed to the elements, my roots clinging to the soil, my branches flirting with heaven.”

— Leylah Attar

“Men who pick you up when they hug you,” said one of the girls. I didn’t know which of them it was, but they…

— Leylah Attar

“We were like two stars converging around the same axis, but with paths that missed each other by a fraction of infinity.”

— Leylah Attar

“But sitting here before Troy Heathgate now, I'm teetering on a knife's edge between honor and disgrace.”

— Leylah Attar

“When the world has always taken from you, when it’s constantly tilted and shifted under your feet, it’s hard to attach permanence to the…

— Leylah Attar

“This is what great masterpieces must feel like on museum walls—like sighing, like climbing out of their rigidly stretched frames, and falling, boneless, into…

— Leylah Attar

“had always thought of home as a place, where you put down your roots, unpack your collection of mugs with snarky quotes, put up…

— Leylah Attar