Top 47 Susan Abulhawa Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Susan Abulhawa

#1. The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn

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#2. I love you as big as the ocean and all its fishes. As big as the sky and all its birds. As big as the earth and all her trees.

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

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#4. They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

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

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#6. Words and stories washed ashore on that ancient way of the sea, and we made of them new songs. The sun came again, casting shadows that we peeled off the street to make of them new clothes.

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#7. Love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.

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#8. No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest of humanity, if you criticize Israel, you must expect to become persona non grata. You should expect an utter onslaught of attacks ...

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. Stories matter. We are composed of our stories. The human heart is made of the words we put in it. If someone ever says mean things to you, don't let those words go into your heart, and be careful not to put mean words in other people's hearts.

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

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#13. 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 the
world.

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#14. Strange, again, I am unafraid of death. Perhaps because she knew, from the soldier's blink, that she would live.

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#15. Arab society revolves around the extended family.
No one had "no family." But Palestinians, who became scattered and
dispossessed following the Nakbe, proved so many exceptions to Arab
society.

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#16. Our wants were simple, but they could not have been more complicated.

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#17. Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.

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#18. We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

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#19. Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

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#20. An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

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#21. I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history

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#22. El-Khan to the villagers. Overlooking Beit Daras were the remnants

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

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

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#25. A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.

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#26. At last everything was falling into place. Falling into love.

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#27. 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.

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#28. When I was a child, Haj Salem told me that answers can be found
in the sky if you look long and hard enough.

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#29. Love cannot reconcile with deception

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#30. Though they lived with the indignities of dispossession and military
occupation, Huda sang with an unassailable freedom that comes only
to those with unwavering faith.

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#31. the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

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#32. "But I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport." - Chris Hedges

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#33. For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises.
... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

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#34. 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.

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#35. In the process of trying to steady my gait in a life that shook with
uncertainty, I learned to make peace with the present by unknowingly
breaking love lines to the past. Growing up in a landscape of
improvised dreams and abstract national longings, everything felt
temporary to me.

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#36. How was it that a man could not walk onto his own property, visit the grave of his wife, eat the fruits of forty generations of his ancestors' toil, without mortal consequence?

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#37. How can one find the first moment of love? When,in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

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#38. For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

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

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#40. Life had collected her pieces and returned her to love's source. There had been no coincidence.

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#41. 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

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