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“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool suspended from constellations. She used chimes now and then, the chimes that characterized every patio in Arizona, the piano, the trees combed by wind. A prelude to a storm. It was like discovering the secret room in a dream of your house that holds all the magic. It was music I wished I lived inside. Around us, cactus, hills filled with jumping cholla, the heat of August like another animal heaving over us.”

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Book:Sonora

Source: Sonora

“I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.”

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Book:Sonora

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“I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.”

Metaphor Refugee Sonora Hannah Lillith Assadi Galaxies Nowhere Displaced

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“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.”

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“My father, a Palestinian, and my mother, an Israeli, met in a bar in New York. Their encounter was a blue shift. An anomaly. A collision. In the end, I understand, it is only for this we live. All I ever wanted was to love.”

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Book:Sonora

Source: Sonora