Quotes from Susan Abulhawa

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

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

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

Love cannot reconcile with deception

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

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

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

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