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“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.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“I looked at Laura . . . and wondered at how many lives before this life we might have known together.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“No one had told me that you can wake up, years passed, and not understand the person you are, the things you did the night before, the things you said, the things left undone, that it can feel like a nightmare, a wildly seductive, spinning nightmare.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“My father, a Palestinian, and my mother, an Israeli, met in a bar in New York. Their encounter was a blue shift. An anomaly. A collision. In the end, I understand, it is only for this we live. All I ever wanted was to love.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“It was so pure, the snow, the purest of all powders, I thought, so pure it must be from elsewhere, from another planet.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“What if we love the black hole in the center of all things? What if we are people like that? People who love to be cursed?”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“The bad angels were the jinn, and the good angels were the jinn too, and we spoke to them both in the desert. In Arabic, jinn has the same root as the word for paradise, jenna. The word for jinn and the word for paradise both have the same root as the word for madness, junun. To be close to the jinn is to be close to madness, is to be even closer to paradise.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“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.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“The instruments were all half desired, half forgotten. It was as if they were left behind by a ghost right in the middle of playing.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“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.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“You and I, your mother, Ahlam, we are from up there,' my father continued. 'We come from the stunning stars. We were just born in the wrong place. We were meant to live on another planet. The people who come to the desert are those who know this, deep inside of them, we are from up there. From far, far away.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.”
― Sonora
― Sonora