10 quotes found
“I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.”
“No matter how good a story is, there is more at stake in the telling.”
“You can say that Lebanese has hundreds of lexemes for family relations. Family to the Lebanese is as snow to the Inuit.”
“I want a God that makes me twirl.' I jumped off the couch. I untucked and unbuttoned my shirt so it would flow like a robe. 'Like this. I can do this for God.' I held my hands out. I twirled and tw...”
“Me? I was lost for long time. I didnt make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school []. I spent all my free time up in those t...”
“Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor surrendering, until the sun finished its daily pilgrimage, for no day is so long that it is not e...”
“...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.”
“Like all cities, Beirut has many layers, and I had been familiar with one or two. What I was introduced to that day with Ali and Kamal was the Beirut of its people. You take different groups, put t...”
“I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out at first, but their hearts weren't in it. And after all, they had enough troubles of their ...”
“By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes acrosseach incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clipis a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a...”
