Quotes from Elias Khoury

The body she inhabited during the day was not hers but rather a reflection from other people's eyes.

Quando l'amore si trasforma in attesa dell'amore non siamo più in grado di capire cosa sentiamo veramente

This isn't the Palestinian flag. Palestine isn't a country for it to have a flag. Palestine is a condition. Every Arab is a Palestinian. Every poor man who carries a gun is a Palestinian. Palestine is the condition of us all.

A story is a life that didn't happen, and a life is a story that didn't get told.

Have you heard that terrifying expression "to kill time"? It's time that kills us, but we pretend it's the other way around!

People are only the phantoms of their memories.

That way the story is put on the same footing as life, because a story is a life that didn't happen, and a life is a story that didn't get told.

Love has a thousand doors. But one-sided love isn't a door, it's a delusion.