47 Quotes by Zeyn Joukhadar

Mama used to say stories were how Baba made sense of things. He had to untangle the world’s knots, she said. Now, thirty thousand feet above him, I am trying to untangle the knot he left in me. He said one day I’d tell our story back to him. But my words are wild country, and I don’t have a map.

Maybe it’s true that we become what we love most, that we exalt the nameless by losing ourselves in it.