95 Quotes by Amal El-Mohtar

I have been birds and branches. I have been bees and wolves. I have been ether flooding the void between stars, tangling their breath into networks of song. I have been fish and plankton and humus, and all these have been me.

Perhaps survival is its own form of torture.

I wish sometimes I could be less fierce with you. No- I feel sometimes like I ought to want to be less fierce with you.

Myth and legend give way to history, which gives way again to myth, like curtains parting and meeting again on either side of a performance. xxx All good stories travel from the outside in.

Red, when I think of this seed in your mouth I imagine having placed it there myself, my fingers on your lips.

Start a stone rolling, so in three centuries you’ll have an avalanche.

Sometimes when you write, you say things I stopped myself from saying.

Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.

Like your victory, love spreads back through time. It claims our earliest association, our battles and losses. Assassinations become assignations.