Quotes by Hannah Lillith Assadi

We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.

Like hunting for a dead beloveds face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before.

I asked the boy who wept what it felt like, crystal meth, the prettiest name for a drug besides heroin. Crystal methamphetamine. His head fell back. He closed his eyes, then opened them. Come on, you know . . . youre just high as fuck. Then in a dramatic whisper: Everything goes silent like a midnight of the mind.

Through my sudden tears, the train lights smeared like shooting stars. Lying before the rippling blue window, below the slurred lights of the world above, it was as if we were underwater.

I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.

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.

I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.

You know the most common phrase in the movies is lets get out of here?