The Eye of the Mirror Quotes

“Hana, the bravest wireless operator in the entire camp. No one is quite like her. She does the night shift in the wireless room, and goes with the girls to her military positions.”
I looked at her. Her eyes were green, her hair was tied back in a pony tail. She had a feminine air despite the seriousness which her difficult assignments imparted to her. I asked her: “It’s unusual for a girl to be on duty at night all by herself!”
“I’m not afraid of the night. Sometimes I used to be on duty at night, and I was not scared. The young men would be tied up along the combat lines and I would keep operating the wireless. At first, my parents wouldn’t agree to my work because they were worried about me. But I’ve done a three-month militia training course. I did it when the revolution entered the camp, and training began. They offered a course for girls. I was fourteen years old. It was a very strenuous course and I was in the third preparatory class at school.”
― Liana Badr, The Eye of the Mirror

“She is marginalized as a young girl in a society with very fixed definitions ofwhat womanhood entails, and also as a Palestinian who is homeless and whose entire nation has been displaced”
― Liana Badr, The Eye of the Mirror

“People were surviving on almost nothing.”
― Liana Badr, The Eye of the Mirror

“The Haganah gangs slaughtered a lot of people, and also raped many women. My neighbor’s niece was slaughtered in front of her father. We had no arms.”
― Liana Badr, The Eye of the Mirror

“My brothers and sisters and I, each of us is homeless in a different country.”
― Liana Badr, The Eye of the Mirror

“One ofthe greatest wonders is that I am unable to enter my country or pass through the regions around it”
― Liana Badr, The Eye of the Mirror

“her body told, and she listened. Her body
spoke, and she heard the words it was saying to her”
― Liana Badr, The Eye of the Mirror

“there were about 4,000 casualties and some 12,000 Palestinians fled to other parts of Lebanon.”
― Liana Badr, The Eye of the Mirror

“We have become refugees, without a country, without dignity, without home.”
― Liana Badr, The Eye of the Mirror

“I run away from you, falling asleep again, although the morning is crystalline and the sun shines radiantly outside.”
― Liana Badr, The Eye of the Mirror