Sonora Quotes
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“I looked at Laura . . . and wondered at how many lives before this life we might have known together.”
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― 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool suspended from constellations. She used chimes now and then, the chimes that characterized every patio in Arizona, the piano, the trees combed by wind. A prelude to a storm. It was like discovering the secret room in a dream of your house that holds all the magic. It was music I wished I lived inside. Around us, cactus, hills filled with jumping cholla, the heat of August like another animal heaving over us.”
― 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
“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 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
“My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace her, kiss her even, to stay with her, always her, my sister, my friend to the end. It was a story after all, even if a sick one. It was completely ours.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.”
― Sonora
― Sonora
“I don't think I'm from this galaxy at all. I believe I came from the Andromeda galaxy, not so far, but far enough. Maybe that's why I'm an outcast.' He drew the spiral of Andromeda close to the Milky Way, almost touching. Then he pointed to Andromeda in the night sky above us.
'Maybe that's where I'm from too,' my father said. We could still see the stars.”
― Sonora
'Maybe that's where I'm from too,' my father said. We could still see the stars.”
― 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
“For those I come from, there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home, the feeling of need for home. We are all waiting for a form of transport, a ship, a saucer to carry us out of the too-dark night.”
― 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