Refaat Alareer Quotes

#1. I averted my eyes, looked around, and stumbled through all the faces in the room till they finally rested on his. He was standing like a scared bird, waving one wing and using the other to hide his scar. Aya Rabah- Scars

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#2. It took only one gunshot. His brother and the canary were silenced forever, in front of his eyes ...

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#3. So many times, I tried to imagine how he would look like and always ended up believing he is no more than a faceless monster.

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#4. A picture is not going to be like a stone that has been subjected to the rain and the heat and the cold and the dirt and the smell of Jerusalem. This stone is Jerusalem. It is.

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#5. What is there beyond the sky?' I asked my mother.
'Paradise.'
'What does it look like?'
'Like children's dreams.

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#6. If a Palestinian bulldozer were ever invented (Haha, I know!) and I were given the chance to be in an orchard, in Haifa for instance,I would never uproot a tree an Israeli planted. No Palestinian would. To Palestinians, the tree is sacred, and so is the Land bearing it

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#7. All that I can tell you is that nothing can justify it, not even the most sacred ends in the world, not even peace itself, understand me?'
'Yes, Mom. Nothing can justify our scars.

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#8. Gaza Writes Back' provides conclusive evidence that telling stories is an act of life, that telling stories is resistance, and that telling stories shapes our memories.

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#9. I am, day after day, falling in love with the years that dwell in his wrinkled face and the memories of the old days which are the beats of his weak heart.

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#10. What to tell you? Gaza is frustrating these days - well, these years. It's a good exercise in patience, at least.

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#11. Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story.

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#12. Of all the people around me, you know best that it takes two to complete a story; it always does

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