“We have on this land all of that which makes life worth living.”
“I will wait for you until the day I can forget you or until the day you realize you cannot forget me.”
“Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be exiled in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.”
“I am from here. I am from there. I am not here, and I am not there.”
“Write down: I am an Arab, and my identity card is number fifty thousand.”
“We love life whenever we can find a way to it.”
“I belong there. I have many memories. I was born as everyone is born. I have a mother and a house with many windows.”
“I fear for the song, I fear for the moon. I burn incense to delay the massacre of the shadows.”
“I come from there and remember, I was born like everyone is born. I have a mother, a house with many windows, and brothers, friends, and a prison cell.”
“Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful, you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.”
“If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, their oil would become tears.”
“And I see myself in others. Is it me I see in them, or them in me?”
“On this earth, there is that which deserves life.”
“When the soul wants to fulfill itself, it is driven to poetry.”
“The butterfly’s last journey is a return to her cocoon.”
“The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.”
“The world is small enough for me to hold in my hand, but not large enough for one exile to find another.”
“Nothing pleases me. I become used to my heaviness, and I say: I belong to myself, and to nothing else.”
“You will leave behind you a thousand gates closed upon a thousand faces.”
“Memory is a sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.”
“Who am I to say to you what I say to you?”
“Sometimes I long for another language that can embrace my silence.”
“The road to peace is a struggle with no end.”
“I will continue to walk even if my feet bleed.”
“My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveler.”
“If I die, I will care only about my longing for life.”
“I am a lover without borders. I am a lover without refuge.”
“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”
“We travel like everyone else, but we return to nothing.”
“A person can make his own heaven and his own hell. The truth lies in the soul.”
“I am not a bird that soars. I am a poet that nests in the shade of the trees.”
“And when I embraced the world, I found it was suffocating.”
“Do not ask me who I am or where I am from. I am from the world and the world is from me.”
“On this land, women make beauty out of despair.”
“I dream of a place where I can find my shadow free.”
“Sometimes a moment is more important than eternity.”
“To be Palestinian is to suffer exile inside exile.”
“I want the morning to forget I exist, and the night to deny it knows me.”
“I’ve learned how to live in memory of what I have lost.”
Thank You
