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61 " I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history "
― Susan Abulhawa , Mornings in Jenin
62 " رابطتُنا كانت فلسطين، وكانت لغة قمنا بتفكيكها لنشيَّد وطناً. "
63 " Our bond was Palestine. It wasa language we dismantled to construct a home. "
64 " How was it that a man could not walk onto his own property, visit the grave of his wife, eat the fruits of forty generations of his ancestors’ toil, without mortal consequence? "
― Susan Abulhawa
65 " I think in saying 'loved each other,' Baldwin doesn't just mean the living. To survive by loving each other means to love our ancestors too. To know their pain, struggles, and joys. It means to love our collective memory, who we are, where we come from.. "
― Susan Abulhawa , Against the Loveless World
66 " فى اثناء محاولتى الاحتفاظ بتوازن مشيتى فى حياة اهتزت بعدم اليقينتعلمت المسالمة مع الحاضر من طريق قطع خيوط حب الماضى من دون دراية منىحيث كبرت فى اجواء من الأحلام المرتجلة و اشواق وطنية مجردةكل شئ بدا مؤقتْا بالنسبة إلى , لا يمكن النظر إلى اى شئ على انه باقِِ "
67 " لقد صدم من افتقار الموت إلى الدراما. من كونه أمرا واقعيا. من سلطته الهادئة "
68 " I colonized the colonizer’s space of authority. I made myself free in chains and held that courtroom captive to my freedom. "
69 " كنت أبدأ حياة جديدة. و لكن, مثل الندبة التي أتحسسها بيَدي, لا يزال الماضي يلازمني. "
70 " I love you as big as the ocean and all its fishes. As big as the sky and all its birds. As big as the earth and all her trees. "
71 " نحن نأتي من أمّنا الأرض، نمنحها حبّنا وجهدنا، وهي، في المقابل، تُغذّينا. وعندما نموت نعود إلى الأرض؛ بطريقة ما، الأرض تمتلكنا. "
72 " لو لم أكن أعرف الشهامة الدائمة لدى الناس في المخيم، لخَشيتُ أن أكون هناك وحدي بعد حلول الظلام. "
73 " Words and stories washed ashore on that ancient way of the sea, and we made of them new songs. The sun came again, casting shadows that we peeled off the street to make of them new clothes. "
― Susan Abulhawa , The Blue Between Sky and Water
74 " When I was a child, Haj Salem told me that answers can be foundin the sky if you look long and hard enough. "
75 " As the people of Ein Hod were marched into despossession, Moshe and his comrades guarded and looted the newly emptied village. While Dalia lay heartbroken, delirious with the loss of Ismael, Jolanta rocked David to sleep. While Hasan tended to his family's survival, Moshe sang in drunken revelry with his fellow soldiers. And while Yehya and the others moved in anguished steps away from their land, the usurpers sand "Hatikva," and shouted, "Long live Israel! "
76 " وضعت ابنة أخي على صدر أُمها النائمة و راقبت أخي؛ نظراته المشحونة بالعاطفة تترجَّح بين الزوجة و الابنة. في مخيم اللاجئين الذي ستسمِّيه إسرائيل ((أرض خصبة للإرهابيين)) و ((وكر فاسِد للإرهاب)), كنتُ شاهدة على حبٍّ يتضاءل أمامه الوجود. "
77 " He looked on in silence at the proof of what Israelis already know, that their history is contrived from the bones and traditions of Palestinians. The Europeans who came knew neither hummus nor falafel but later proclaimed them authentic Jewish cuisine." They claimed the villas of Qatamon as "old Jewish homes. They had no old photographs or ancient drawings of their ancestry living on the land, loving it, and planting it. They arrived from foreign nations and uncovered coins in Palestines earth from the Canaanites, the Romans, the ottomans, then sold them as their own "ancient Jewish artifacts." They came to Jaffa and found oranges the size of watermelons and said, "Behold! The Jews are known for their oranges." But those oranges were the culmination of centuries of Palestinian farmers perfecting the art of citrus growing. "
78 " Our wants were simple, but they could not have been more complicated. "
79 " I know in alone here. I’m not delusional. But the way memory animates the past is more real than the present. "
80 " He feared love more than he feared death.Because, for the hated and pursued, the reverse side of love is unbearable loss. "