95 Quotes by Amal El-Mohtar

But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me. I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.

Hunger, Red – to sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teeth – is this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out? Sometimes I think that’s what I have instead of friends.

She cannot stop herself from reaching out, from trying with a touch to say, I’m here. Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they’ll mistake embrace for strangulation.

But we’re all deviant in our different ways.

I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.

Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt.

She wants there to be a God, so she can curse Her.

It is difficult – it is very difficult, to befriend where you wish to consume, to find those who, when they ask Do I have you still, when they end a letter with Yours, mean it in any substantive way.

I keep turning away from speaking of your letter. I feel – to speak of it would be to contain what it did to me, to make it small.