Enter Ghost Quotes

“Haneen once compared Palestine to an exposed part of an electronic network, where someone has cut the rubber coating with a knife to show the wires and currents underneath. She probably didn’t say that exactly, but that was the image she had brought into my mind. That this place revealed something about the whole world.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“I was born a few months before the Nakba. You know this. You know what it means? It means it was already my reality. I didn’t know what it was before.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“Maybe all’s fair in love and war. Only it’s not, is it? Not since the Geneva Convention.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“My whole life I’d been aware of Haneen’s stronger moral compass; it made me afraid to confide in her until the very last moment, until I absolutely needed to. I also wanted to resist her, the way a child resists a parent and at the same time absorbs their wisdom; I wanted to sulk in her second bedroom and feel better with the secret muffled gladness that someone was holding me to account.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“He’s saying, it’s a choice between life and death. But really, what Mariam is pointing out is - there’s a third way. You can be a ghost.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“One night she extemporised upon the broader risk that art might deaden resistance, by softening suffering’s blows through representing it.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“We haunt them. They want to kill us but we will not die.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“Betrayal was not the word, it had too many syllables.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“first port of call for thoughts of longing.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost

“The waves were varicose with foam, seething, changing, the white hem heaving on the sand.”
― Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost