“wish I could just run barefoot in every refugee campand hold every child,cover their earsso they wouldn’t have to hear the sound of bombingfor the rest of their life the way I do..”

“I am an Arab woman of color Beware … Beware my anger !”

“All my grandfather ever wanted to dowas wake up at dawn and watch my grandmother kneel and prayin a village hidden between Jaffa and Haifamy mother was born under an olive treeon a soil they say is no longer minebut I will cross their barriers, their check pointstheir damn apartheid walls and return to my homelandI am an Arab woman of color and we come in all shades of anger”

“If she were running through the rye, if she were headed towards the abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of my strength, with every scared beat of my heart, with every thought that could only be for her. And if I were to be running the same way, I’d like to think she’d do the same. But maybe her hands would be busy holding the book. Maybe she wouldn’t see me, too intent on looking for Phoebe from the carousel. Or waiting for Holden to hold her, to wrap her in the pages of his arms, to say she was the only one who truly knew him, as I plunged past her, sad to be leaving, and a little happy to be away.”

“I still promise. Every day for the rest of my life. I’ll hold your dreams, wishes, hopes and fears forever. I Promise to never give up on us and to love you with every beat of my heart till the end of time.I miss you.Jared xxx”

“I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.”

“You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.''As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.”