10 Quotes by Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?

One cannot live on anger, my son.

He who aims too high will get a sore neck

Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.

Good things make choosing difficult.Bad things leave no choice

You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending

Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war

The hardest part for us was watching them harvest our Shamouti oranges.Those were our favourites, thick skinned, seedless and juicy.When the wind was strong, the scent of their blossoms in the spring and their fruit in the summer still reached us.

He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?''We do.' I smiled.He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me. 'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade.