Meg > Meg's Quotes

“We emerged from the scream,
we lived within it for a thousand years,
and we didn't ask from which throat we spilled.
Suddenly, everything went silent,
and screamers no longer had a voice.
It is said in lore that an epic has melted our traces.”
― Hashim Shalula

“And my name - if I mispronounce it on my coffin - is mine”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Mural

“Just because you’ve lost all hope doesn’t mean you get to throw out hope for all of us.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

“And because this isn't history, but mystery---my story---let's start with me for a change.”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“To induce a person's change of heart is different from challenging the tremendous force of collective denial.”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

“You can't tell whether people are gay by what they look like. And gay or straight aren't the only two options.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume One

“Wanting to love and be loved wasn't a weakness.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

“Who am I to defy nothingness? who am I? who am?”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“I've forgotten how to breathe with my lungs
I've forgotten speech
I'm scared for my language
Leave the rest and just bring back my language!”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Mural

“As I write this, a ceasefire has still not been called. I wonder what reality you now live in. From the point in time at which you read this, what do you say of the moment I am in? How large is the gulf between us?”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

“It is a novel horror in human history to watch a genocidal war on our phones. For men, women, and children, scholars, artists, and journalists to live-tweet the moments before they are killed.”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

“A new loin,
a new dagger,
a new Brutus.
The stabbing is ancient,
what's ancient is the stabbing.
O world,
the stabbed have become three.”
― Hashim Shalula

“I try to breathe,
but as I inhale,
the light screams,
the sea roars,
and the world around me threatens to collapse.
I run--
above water, below water
chasing shadows that twist and disappear.
A colossal hand flips me over,
tossing me left, then right,
spinning me endlessly in this vast, burning pan.”
― Fatima Hassouna

“I want a grave,
I don't want my corpse to rot in the open road.”
― Batool Abu Akleen