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“You can't hold the hand of every Lost One, baby girl... Whatever turmoil that boy carries underneath, it was brewing long before you met him, and it'll go on long after you forget his name.”

Book:City of Trees: A Play

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City of Trees: A Play

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“They hike almost three miles without incident, and it's amazing to watch the colors leach back into the desert after the day's blanching. There's a moment, Lydia realizes, or no, more than a moment - a span of perhaps fifteen minutes just at twilight - when the desert is the most perfect place that exists. The temperature, the light, the colors, all hang and linger at some unflawed precipice, like the cars of a roller coaster ticking ever so slowly over their apex before the crash. The light droops ever farther from the sky, and Lydia can smell the heat of the day wicking away from her skin.”

Nature Beauty Desert Arizona Sonora Golden Hour L Heure Bleue Sonoran Desert Die Blaue Stunde

Book:American Dirt

Source: American Dirt

“We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.”

Together Survival Self Destruction Sonora Hannah Lillith Assadi

Book:Sonora

Source: Sonora

“I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself.”

Forgiveness New York City Sonora Hannah Lillith Assadi Self Forgiveness

Book:Sonora

Source: Sonora

“What if we love the black hole in the center of all things? What if we are people like that? People who love to be cursed?”

Cursed Sonora Hannah Lillith Assadi

Book:Sonora

Source: Sonora

“I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.”

Setting New York City Subway Sonora Hannah Lillith Assadi

Book:Sonora

Source: Sonora

“Cutters read the land like a text. They search the manuscript of the ground for irregularities in its narration. They know the plots and the images by heart. They can see where the punctuation goes. They are landscape grammarians, got the Ph.D. in reading dirt.”

Immigration Desert Mexico Sonora Mexico Us

Book:The Devil's Highway: A True Story

Source: The Devil's Highway: A True Story

“I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.”

Relationships Friendship Escape Sonora Hannah Lillith Assadi Run Away

Book:Sonora

Source: Sonora

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