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21 " We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together. "
― , Sonora
22 " I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies. "
23 " My father, a Palestinian, and my mother, an Israeli, met in a bar in New York. Their encounter was a blue shift. An anomaly. A collision. In the end, I understand, it is only for this we live. All I ever wanted was to love. "
24 " I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts. "
25 " It was so pure, the snow, the purest of all powders, I thought, so pure it must be from elsewhere, from another planet. "
26 " The bad angels were the jinn, and the good angels were the jinn too, and we spoke to them both in the desert. In Arabic, jinn has the same root as the word for paradise, jenna. The word for jinn and the word for paradise both have the same root as the word for madness, junun. To be close to the jinn is to be close to madness, is to be even closer to paradise. "
27 " The instruments were all half desired, half forgotten. It was as if they were left behind by a ghost right in the middle of playing. "
28 " I looked at Laura . . . and wondered at how many lives before this life we might have known together. "
29 " I thought he had come to save my life. "
30 " No one had told me that you can wake up, years passed, and not understand the person you are, the things you did the night before, the things you said, the things left undone, that it can feel like a nightmare, a wildly seductive, spinning nightmare. "