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I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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It's a big formless, arctic night, the stars so bright they seem to hiss. I walk with my hands in pockets, arms pressed to my sides. Even in my down parka, the cold is still there. I feel as though my blood is crackling in it, my bones conducting cold like wires. My toes are curled in their boots. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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He tells about his Sudanese roommate at Georgetown who owned a prayer rug with a compass to find Mecca built right into it. "After a few weeks in America, he rolled it up and used the compass to go camping," Han says. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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Old, like swallowed tears. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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The sky is white. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [ ... ] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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Phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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There's the man with his cart who sold me rolls sprinkled with thyme and sesame every morning and then saluted me like a soldier. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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His expression seems a sort of surrender: the loss of a thing that he has already lost before. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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Tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they baked is like looking out of their eyes. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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When Matussem Ramoud opened his eyes each morning, his wife would still not be there. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the way out. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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People look at you and forget about things. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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He believes that this man has looped a bit of the thread-leash through a corner of his soul. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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Cold, like swallowed tears. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it ... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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The streets of Aqaba are shell spirals and, on summer nights, crowded and complicated as a woman's heart. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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Love and prayer are intimately related. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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But my foster mother never explained to me that there can be a deep loneliness in modern sanity too. That madness can be its own form of solace. -- Diana Abu-Jaber
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You should prize this pain of yours. This is what will make you human all the way through. Nothing less will do that. -- Diana Abu-Jaber