Hala Alyan Quotes

#1. She feels the anger quiet into a briny resentment. The bitterness floats like an inkblot in her mind's eye.

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#2. What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That's all life is, he wants to tell her. It's continuing.

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#3. The sea was like another member of the household, a recalcitrant child at times, a soothing aunt at others. She crooned them awake; she crooned them to sleep. Everywhere, there was the smell of salt.

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#4. recognizing in that moment that there were some things we are meant to keep for ourselves, too precious to share with others. She

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#5. She still loves him. This is the fact she wakes up to each morning. She checks it, sometimes, a tongue probing an aching tooth, making sure it still hurts.

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