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I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.

I lit a cigarette. ‘Go ahead, take a smoke,’ my father said. ‘It won’t kill you. Only sadness will.
– Hannah Lillith Assadi

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  1. 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
  2. One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents’ sadness in your eyes. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  3. Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  4. Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale. – Anthony Liccione
  5. A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke,Another one bought from the store.If he lights one, his mind’s lit upAnother one burns a hole.. – Sanhita Baruah
  6. I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  7. Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  8. 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
  9. Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  10. When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  11. With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  18. With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. We both knew no bounds to our escapism. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  22. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  23. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  24. New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  25. Like hunting for a dead beloved’s face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  26. You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. – Sigmund Freud
  27. Nona I don’t think your allowed to smoke in here.Nona exhaled a large cloud of smoke.Nona keeps their lights on. A little smoke won’t hurt them. – Holly Hood
  28. You are not smoking cigarette, it’s cigarette that is smoking you. – Vikrmn
  29. Life is like a cigarette and the world is a cigarette packet…!!! – MRehan Behleem
  30. Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. – Mais la bouche embrasse la femme.) – Charles de Leusse
  31. Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you. – Anthony Liccione
  32. There is no such thing as ‘just one last cigarette’ -“ except the last cigarette that you’ve already had. – HM Forester
  33. It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier
  34. …then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. – Anas Nin
  35. He’s completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly. – Rebecca McNutt
  36. Every time you smoke a cigarette, God takes an hour off your life and gives it to Keith Richards – Anonymous
  37. …I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight – with you, everything was beautiful… – John Geddes
  38. Cigarette smoke when i didn’t ask for it. Never when I did. – Ifra Asad
  39. Life is an addiction Wind to feel ,Love to crave ,Power to have ,Cigarette’s to smoke. – AdityaPawar
  40. She smiled and her whole face lit up. Or maybe it was mine. All I know for certain is that smile lit up even my darkest days. – J Sterling

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