The Moon That Turns You Back Quotes

“My favorite house is my mother.”
― Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

“The cost of wanting something is who you are on the other side of getting it”
― Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

“I'm here to tell you the tide will never stop coming in.
I'm here to tell you whatever you build will be ruined, so make it beautiful.”
― Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

“I’m supposed
to rest, but that’s where the children live.
In the hot mist of sleep. Dream after dream.
Instead, I obsess.”
― Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

“I don’t have time to write about the soul.
There are bodies to count. There’s a man
wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case
I meet God and there’s a brick of light
before each bombing.”
― Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

“and when I say I am practicing with fear, I mean I am learning to let it trot across me”
― Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems