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One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.

One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents’ sadness in your eyes.
– Hannah Lillith Assadi

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  1. I lit a cigarette. ‘Go ahead, take a smoke,’ my father said. ‘It won’t kill you. Only sadness will. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  2. I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  3. Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  4. My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  5. Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  6. When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  7. With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  8. I first understood why Christians prayed for a savior in the form of a beautiful man. He had absolved me of the blue-streaked blond. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  9. It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  10. I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  11. There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  12. I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  13. I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  14. With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  15. I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  16. I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  17. We both knew no bounds to our escapism. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  18. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  19. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  20. Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  21. New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  22. My father insisted I eat red meat. ‘You’ll lose your brain without food,’ he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  23. Like hunting for a dead beloved’s face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  24. Our parents would not be -˜The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  25. When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  26. …to make art is to realize another’s sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people’s lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger. – Marianne Wiggins
  27. Sadness is not out there. It’s inside you. Sadness is often a misperception and false interpretation of a situation. – Debasish Mridha
  28. Bridget’s anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her. – Ann Brashares
  29. I hate sadness. Anything is better than sadness. Even feeling nothing. – Rebekah Crane
  30. I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness. – Sonia Sotomayor
  31. She’s known sadness. That’s what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She’s known sadness, and it has made her kind. – Nathan Filer
  32. The lonely? Where’s that from?Sadness’ best friend. Sadness broughtit along and I couldn’t turn it away, soI let it multiply in my pulse instead. – Darshana Suresh
  33. If your anger is the result of your sadness or if your sadness is result of your anger , you are undoubtedly suffering from disorientation. – Aparna Pathak
  34. Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears. – Deepak Chandra
  35. But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal. – Stephen King
  36. It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power. – Chuck Palahniuk
  37. Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all. – Gautama Buddha
  38. Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. – Aberjhani
  39. While looking into the mirror, you are saying to yourself: I am the best. Your own reflection makes you forget the only presence in the mirror. – Viorica Dragotel
  40. Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror — its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again. – Vera Nazarian

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