186 Quotes by Rabih Alameddine

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

Can you imagine how lonely she must have felt when she received that phone call? Your lover has just died, your companion has abandoned you, but don't you dare make an inappropriate sound, because your family is around. No one to touch you the way he did, no one to understand you, no one to hug you to sleep, but don't dare allow your face to show a glint of grief. The cutting pain of feeling alone amid loved ones.

Do you know the difference between an expat and an immigrant? You're an immigrant in a country you look up to, an expat in one you consider beneath you.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

How can she tell the difference between freedom and unburdening?

The story of the king is the story of the people, and unfortunately, to this day, no king has learned that lesson.

Of course, like Descartes, Newton, Locke, Pascal, Spinoza, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wingenstein, Kant never formed an intimate tie or reared a family.

To write is to know that you are not at home.

Yes, I am a tad obsessive. For a nonreligious woman, this is my faith.