Quotes from Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora

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

I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.

We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because it was only a dream.

I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it.

Find someone who loves you more than you love them.

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

It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it.

My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.

I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt.

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.