It's a Big Big World Quotes

“I would gladly take the responsibility of my words, of making more of them, of making volumes of them for the rest of my existence.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World

“I tried to get out of it. I tried to be different from any other human being waiting on a decision he had no say in.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World

“I wanted to believe things would work out for me as well.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World

“The game of writing wasn’t fair.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World

“No current. No electricity. No love. Just the barking of a mad dog like a shout in the sad dark.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World

“After all, some people you had to rehearse your words with.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World

“I could hear the echo of chants bursting through the apartment walls depicting the loser that had come to be and reside within them.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World

“I’d watched that girl hold onto a lot of things, but not quite like she held onto a bottle of wine.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World

“I could still be more human in anything I wrote than by interacting with any of these people.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World

“It was true: the government gave you everything—food, job, security, healthcare. The part they didn’t mention was that they took your thinking in exchange.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World

“I still owed the world a lot of things.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World

“I didn’t share their pain. I didn’t share the pain of the children being bombarded in the region I came from, I didn’t share the cry of the Arabs, the liberty chants of the good and the gay and the faithful, the audacity of the newcomers with a champions’ mentality to pioneer and innovate and excel in a foreign country harboring average hopes for the lot of them, or at the very least, the majority of them.”
― Hanna Abi Akl, It's a Big Big World