No Land to Light On Quotes

“The homesick have, at least, a home to miss, but this ...”
― Yara Zgheib, No Land to Light On

“Time is a terrible distance.”
― Yara Zgheib , No Land to Light On

“No one has the life they want. People make choices.”
― Yara Zgheib, No Land to Light On

“He tried to imagine her, black-haired and scrawny, in Syria, walking past him on a Damascene sidewalk, on a Saturday. He couldn't. Just as he couldn't, now, believe that these songs, playing here and now in a Cambridge pizza shop, had ever played in Syria. That it was possible for songs to exist, simultaneously, for different people in different places. People leading vastly different lives at the same time, eating pizza, singing the same songs.”
― Yara Zgheib, No Land to Light On

“Most people don't cross rooms and oceans, embark on journeys with no promise of land to light on.”
― Yara Zgheib, No Land to Light On