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Like hunting for a dead beloved's face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before.

Like hunting for a dead beloved’s face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before.
– Hannah Lillith Assadi

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  1. I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  2. Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  3. 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
  4. Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  5. When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  6. With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  13. With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents’ sadness in your eyes. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  17. I lit a cigarette. ‘Go ahead, take a smoke,’ my father said. ‘It won’t kill you. Only sadness will. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  18. We both knew no bounds to our escapism. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  19. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  20. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  21. Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  22. New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  23. 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
  24. Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us-”and our beloveds-”healthier. – Sharon Salzberg
  25. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you. – Jeanette Winterson
  26. There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late. – Thomas Pynchon
  27. Does this mean that in some places I’m American and in some places I’m African American and in other places, by logical extension, I’m nobody? – Roberto Bolao
  28. And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead – Rick Yancey
  29. I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint. – DA Paul
  30. She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face. – Amit Kalantri
  31. Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that’s living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere). – Mary Beard
  32. We are born to be loved, we live to be loved, and we die to be loved; so life is for love. – Debasish Mridha
  33. Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  34. Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  35. Don’t cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  36. Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye. – Glenda Millard
  37. We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can’t feed the living. – James JeanPierre
  38. Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If -˜oneself’ gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive. – Dada Bhagwan
  39. If GOD can raise a dead man, then He can raise a living man’s dead anything. – TemitOpe Ibrahim
  40. If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes. – Chuck Palahniuk

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