Life Quote by Susan Abulhawa

““Life had collected her pieces and returned her to love’s source. There had been no coincidence.””

Susan Abulhawa

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Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

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“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated it for…

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“I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fallen. The…

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Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I…

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“Baba was gone forever. My mother kept waiting for him until the day she died, just as she waited to return home, just as…

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“The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.”

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“When I was a child, Haj Salem told me that answers can be found in the sky if you look long and hard enough.”

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“And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.”

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An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

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“Yousef had only been gone forty days, but he looked ten years older. His body had become slight, and seeing him like that put…

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“Though they lived with the indignities of dispossession and military occupation, Huda sang with an unassailable freedom that comes only to those with unwavering…

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“Still, the refugee camp of Jenin remained as it had been, a one-square-mile patch of earth, excised from time and imprisoned in that endless…

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