Quotes About Jenin

#1. Still,
the refugee camp of Jenin remained as it had been, a one-square-mile
patch of earth, excised from time and imprisoned in that endless year
of 1948

Susan Abulhawa

#2. You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may be, that you're not free; you're just studying a different textbook.

Frederick Lenz

#3. He took in a premeditated breath, closed his eyes, and exhaled into the nye at his lips, playing a new tune.
It was not the sad music of waiting. Nor
was it a melody of his heritage. It was a call to the earth. To Allah. To
the country within him.

Susan Abulhawa

#4. Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.

Hodding Carter III

#5. To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

Adyashanti

#6. Jack in and jerk off, kid! You too can save the world ... from those evil, bug-eyed commies from space!

Hal Duncan

#7. Absurdity, only you are pure.

Cesar Vallejo

#8. Ah, clear they see and true they say
That one shall weep, and one shall stray

Dorothy Parker

#9. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Lemony Snicket

#10. I was very depressed when I was 19 ... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Lady Gaga

#11. Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.

Sarah Dessen

#12. The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. For if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

Dorothy Rowe