19 Quotes by Omar El Akkad

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?""Come now," said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.

Everyone fights an American war.

Some people are born sentenced to terrible inheritance, diseases that lay dormant in the blood from birth. My sentence was to know, to understand.

I am back home by a riverbank and I am happy and I still lover her. My secret is that I still love her. This isn't a story about war. It's about ruin.

What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else's home?

Even a cruel favor is still a favor

This isn't a story about war. It's about ruin.

All her life she'd had little interest in the workings of boys' minds, which she imagined only as a set of flimsy pinwheels turning in the direction of obvious things.