quotes by Rabih Alameddine

"...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us."
— Rabih Alameddine (The Hakawati)

"The persistence of memeory is the bane of my existence, the blight of my life. "
— Rabih Alameddine (The Perv: Stories)

"Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.


From,The Hakawati"
— Rabih Alameddine

"I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out at first, but their hearts weren't in it. And after all, they had enough troubles of their own.

From, the Hakawati
"
— Rabih Alameddine

"I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality."
— Rabih Alameddine (Koolaids: The Art of War)

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words broke my soul.

From, The Perv "
— Rabih Alameddine

"it was at an early age that he learned to entertain himself. […] . his inner world redecorated the outer one. His imaginary friends proved more loyal than any real ones, if only because, unlike the latter, they existed.

From, The Hakawati"
— Rabih Alameddine

"Do you realize if antidepressants were available fifty years ago, the existentialists could have been happy? We would have been spared reading so many dull books.

From, Koolaids

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— Rabih Alameddine

"it was at an early age that he learned to entertain himself. […] . his inner world redecorated the outer one. His imaginary friends proved more loyal than any real ones, if only because, unlike the latter, they existed.

From, The Hakawati"
— Rabih Alameddine

"I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out at first, but their hearts weren't in it. And after all, they had enough troubles of their own.

"
— Rabih Alameddine

"Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.

From, The Hakawati"
— Rabih Alameddine

"I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out at first, but their hearts weren't in it. And after all, they had enough troubles of their own.

From, The Hakawati"
— Rabih Alameddine