“ 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 e… Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ 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… Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark. Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ 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… Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ 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. Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will. Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts. Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ 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. Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ 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… Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ Like hunting for a dead beloved's face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before. Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of our Milky Way. Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ 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 w… Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay. Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ Look at the lonely fisherman,' my father says.'Look at his view,' my mother says. Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation. Hannah Lillith Assadi
“ Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora. Hannah Lillith Assadi
