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It's a Big Big World QUOTES

It's a Big Big World QUOTES

1 " I’d watched that girl hold onto a lot of things, but not quite like she held onto a bottle of wine. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

2 " I could hear the echo of chants bursting through the apartment walls depicting the loser that had come to be and reside within them. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

3 " I didn’t share their pain. I didn’t share the pain of the children being bombarded in the region I came from, I didn’t share the cry of the Arabs, the liberty chants of the good and the gay and the faithful, the audacity of the newcomers with a champions’ mentality to pioneer and innovate and excel in a foreign country harboring average hopes for the lot of them, or at the very least, the majority of them. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

4 " I still owed the world a lot of things. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

5 " It was true: the government gave you everything—food, job, security, healthcare. The part they didn’t mention was that they took your thinking in exchange. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

6 " I could still be more human in anything I wrote than by interacting with any of these people. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

7 " After all, some people you had to rehearse your words with. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

8 " No current. No electricity. No love. Just the barking of a mad dog like a shout in the sad dark. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

9 " The game of writing wasn’t fair. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

10 " I wanted to believe things would work out for me as well. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

11 " I tried to get out of it. I tried to be different from any other human being waiting on a decision he had no say in. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

12 " I would gladly take the responsibility of my words, of making more of them, of making volumes of them for the rest of my existence. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World