Susan Abulhawa, Mornings In Jenin Quotes

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.

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

Always" is a good word to believe in.

I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.

How fate is stubborn and holds to habit.

You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.

The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.