“Love cannot reconcile with deception”

“Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.”

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

“the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.”

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

“Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.”

“We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her”