Hannah Lillith Assadi Quotes

#1. When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.

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#2. With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.

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#3. Like hunting for a dead beloved's face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before.

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#4. You know the most common phrase in the movies is 'let's get out of here?

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#5. My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace her, kiss her even, to stay with her, always her, my sister, my friend to the end. It was a story after all, even if a sick one. It was completely ours.

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#6. I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.

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#7. We both knew no bounds to our escapism.

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#8. One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.

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#9. 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.

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#10. It was so pure, the snow, the purest of all powders, I thought, so pure it must be from elsewhere, from another planet.

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#11. I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.

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#12. My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.

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#13. 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.

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#14. Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

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#15. We are all cursed. We live in the era of the curse. A world that cannot be fixed. The best thing would be an alien ship. Another planet. One with three moons. But you, I saw you in my dreams. I saw you coming. You came to heal my broken heart. That's why I named you Ahlam.

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#16. He could guide anyone to the point of no return. He'd corral them with poetry, music, invoking the alcoholic gods that all died young. But we were so young, we didn't know we had anything we would miss.

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#17. I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.

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#18. I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.

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#19. I looked at Laura . . . and wondered at how many lives before this life we might have known together.

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#20. For those I come from, there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home, the feeling of need for home. We are all waiting for a form of transport, a ship, a saucer to carry us out of the too-dark night.

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#21. Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own.

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#22. This day has already happened; this day will not end.

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#23. When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.

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#24. There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.

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#25. The earth spins further from help. Beyond us the heart monitors go on, the fluorescent lights buzz, the commentators shout, the casino leaves fall into the desert, sirens blare. But all we hear is the rain.

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#26. I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.

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#27. Sometimes in the corner of my eye, I saw a girl running through the loft. A see-through girl, a silhouette. She looked the way the world looks without my glasses. Vaguely hued, indistinct. She looked the way a body looks underwater, lost in the blur of bubble and wave.

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#28. I slowly lost any dream for myself. No one warned me of this, that the stars in New York can infect the light inside, that they can trap you in their shadow. Dylan was of course a star. He had achieved the thing we all came to New York wanting.

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#29. She crooned on until her cigarette was gone. The ash in the wind blew around us like hesitant snow.

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