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1. "Marry, don't marry,' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple strudel. Just don't have your babies unless it's absolutely necessary.'How do I know if it's necessary?'She stops and stares ahead, her hands gloved in flour. 'Ask yourself, Do I want a baby or do I want to make a cake? The answer will come to you like bells ringing.' She flickers her fingers in the air by her ear. 'For me, almost always, the answer was cake." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
2. "Dad says that everyone invented baklava." It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes."Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
3. "The sky is white." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
4. "Slavery has been outlawed in most arab countries for years now but there are villages in jordan made up entirely of descendants of runaway Saudi slaves. Abdulrahman knows he might be free, but hes still an arab. No one ever wants to be the arab - its too old and too tragic, too mysterious and too exasperating, and too lonely for anyone but an actual arab to put up with for very long. Essentially, its an image problem. Ask anyone, Persian, Turks, even Lebanese and Egyptians - none of them want to be the arab. They say things like, well, really we're indo-russian-asian european- chaldeans, so in the end the only one who gets to be the arab is the same little old bedouin with his goats and his sheep and his poetry about his goats and his sheep, because he doesnt know that he's the arab, and what he doesnt know wont hurt him." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
5. "When Matussem Ramoud opened his eyes each morning, his wife would still not be there." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
6. "...tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they baked is like looking out of their eyes." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
7. "His expression seems a sort of surrender: the loss of a thing that he has already lost before." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
8. "..cold, like swallowed tears." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
9. "The streets of Aqaba are shell spirals and, on summer nights, crowded and complicated as a woman's heart." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
10. "Love and prayer are intimately related." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
11. "You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the way out." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
12. "She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage of soul-searching. Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
13. "He tells about his Sudanese roommate at Georgetown who owned a prayer rug with a compass to find Mecca built right into it. "After a few weeks in America, he rolled it up and used the compass to go camping," Han says." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
14. "There's the man with his cart who sold me rolls sprinkled with thyme and sesame every morning and then saluted me like a soldier." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
15. "He believes that this man has looped a bit of the thread-leash through a corner of his soul." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
16. "..a phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
17. "What about Danny Thomas?" Uncle Hal asks. "What happened to him?"Dead," Uncle Abdelhafiz says. "Nice Lebanese boy.""Never mind about Danny Thomas, look what happened to your whole family! Look at your cousin Farouq, Great Uncle Ziad, Auntie Seena and Jimmy's son Jalal," Aunt Jean cuts in disapprovingly."Dead, dead, dead, and in jail." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
18. "The moment feels laden with mystery and tension, as if for one second the world has agreed to pay attention to time itself." ~ Diana Abu Jaber
19. "I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me." ~ Diana Abu Jaber

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