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41 " The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn "
― Susan Abulhawa , Mornings in Jenin
42 " لا أحد يتكلم، وكأن الكلام مجرَّد الكلام سيؤكَّد الحقيقة المُرَّة، وكأن الصمت يحمل احتمال أن يكون كل ذلك مجرَّد كابوس. "
43 " جاء الموت ليشابه الحياةوالحياة لتشبه الموت "
44 " Love cannot reconcile with deception "
45 " Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation. "
46 " إن لحظة واحدة لَيُمكنُها أن تسحق دماغاً وتُغير مجرى الحياة، مسار التاريخ. "
47 " For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins. "
48 " An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history. "
49 " The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has cometo live with us like a family member who makes you happy by avoidingyou, but who is still one of the family. Our anger is a rage thatWesterners cannot understand. Our sadness can make the stonesweep. And the way we love is no exception "
50 " It is the kind of love you can know only if you have felt the intensehunger that makes your body eat itself at night. The kind you knowonly after life shields you from falling bombs or bullets passing throughyour body. It is the love that dives naked toward infinity’s reach. I thinkit is where God lives. "
51 " هل للكلمات أن تُلغي ضخامة الحياة والموت لتُقرَّبهما، الواحد من نقيضِه إلى هذه الدرجة؟ "
52 " يمكنني العيش في عالم الماء الهادئ، حيث لاتُسمع صرخات ولا أصوات إطلاق نار، وحيث لاتشتم رائحة الموت "
53 " We’re all born with the greatest treasures we’ll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart. And the indispensable tools of those treasures are time and health. How you use the gifts of Allah to help yourself and humanity is ultimately how you honor Him. "
54 " Stories matter. We are composed of our stories. The human heart is made of the words we put in it. If someone ever says mean things to you, don’t let those words go into your heart, and be careful not to put mean words in other people’s hearts. "
― Susan Abulhawa , The Blue Between Sky and Water
55 " لا أحد يمكنه إستملاك شجرة. يمكنها أن تنتمي إليك، كما يمكنك أن تنتمي إليها. نحن نأتي من أمنا الأرض، نمنحها حبّنا وجهدنا،وهي في المقابل تُغذِّينا، وعندما نموت نعود إلى الأرض. بطريقة ما، الأرض تمتلكنا.. فلسطين تمتلكنا،نحن ننتمي إليها! "
56 " الأنغام الموسيقية الناعمة للغة العربية رقصت في داخلي حالما سمعت أصوات لغة أمي. "
57 " ما أسرع مرور الوقت عندما يكونان معاً ! ما أبطأه عندما يفترقان!. "
58 " How can one find the first moment of love? When,in what instant, does the night’s dark sky become blue? "
59 " No one had ever kissed me with such love, and it occurred to me that happiness can reach such depths that it becomes something akin to grief. "
― Susan Abulhawa , Against the Loveless World
60 " love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins. "