“Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.”

“love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.”

“Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?”

“The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn”

“For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.”

“Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation.”

“The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.”