Sipping from the Nile Quotes

“loved tagging along when she pushed open the storeroom door and went inside. It was a small room but filled with an overwhelming array of sacks bulging with different kinds of beans, nuts, flour, sugar, rice, and a multitude of spices, emitting a symphony of assorted smells I can still summon into memory at will. Large glass jars squatted on the shelves, stacked to the ceiling,”
― Jean Naggar, Sipping from the Nile

“Adults often assume that if they take care not to discuss frightening situations with young children they will protect them from fear, neglecting to acknowledge that children are tuned in to different channels. Whispers and concerned looks, the relief sensed in a long hug, the radio suddenly switched from news to music, all these signals and many more are unfailingly internalized, misinterpreted, and tucked into the subconscious of small children. Without the anchor of acceptable explanation and communication, their fears billow out into threatening unidentifiable shapes, stirring hidden levels of anxiety.”
― Jean Naggar, Sipping from the Nile

“My mother herself was a person unburdened by any awareness of shades of gray in the matter of life. There was the way her family did things, and there was everything else,”
― Jean Naggar, Sipping from the Nile

“I was aware that snakes could hide where darkness reigned, so I clutched the hand that brought me and shivered. I was also beginning to be aware that many things lurked outside my emotional field of vision casting lengthening shadows into the golden permanence I believed was mine forever.”
― Jean Naggar, Sipping from the Nile

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― Jean Naggar, Sipping from the Nile

“Time and again, she refused to let herself be drawn into the heat of battle, and watching her grow bold at the challenge, I came to believe that there is always a path to family unity even through the most tangled of battlegrounds.”
― Jean Naggar, Sipping from the Nile

“Where there are wounds, ties of blood form bridges of scar tissue, leaving later generations the option and delight of clambering over the rough spots to find the welcome of family they recognize in a world teeming with strangers.”
― Jean Naggar, Sipping from the Nile