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I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.

I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.
– Hannah Lillith Assadi

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  1. 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
  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. 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. With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents’ sadness in your eyes. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  16. I lit a cigarette. ‘Go ahead, take a smoke,’ my father said. ‘It won’t kill you. Only sadness will. – 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. I am longing for you in life and in deathAs the moon is longing for night and life is longing for breath – Debasish Mridha
  25. Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones. – Keith Richards
  26. No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul. – George RR Martin
  27. A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. – Kristin Hannah
  28. Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone’s bones. – Hannah Kent
  29. These songs tell me I’m not alone. If you look at it that way, music…music can see you through anything. – Hannah Harrington
  30. No matter how much bigger the pain is, it ends, yes it actually ends the moment when a pain of much bigger magnitude enters our lives. – Ratish Edwards
  31. The bigger the bricks critics throw at you the bigger the palace you are going to build. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  32. The bigger the victory, the bigger the battle. Still, be the light and a change agent for healing, restoration and transformation. – Germany Kent
  33. The bigger the front, the bigger the back. – Stephen Grosz
  34. The bigger the mistake the bigger the opportunity. – Bryant McGill
  35. Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success-”bigger than talent, money, or popularity. – Beverly K Bachel
  36. problems call for ideas, the bigger the problem, the bigger the idea – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  37. Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone-”even a tree can understand music. – Debasish Mridha
  38. If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God. – Augustine of Hippo
  39. No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  40. [Darlin’] it does not surprise me that someone with as much passion as you would feel the music in your bones. – Kallypso Masters

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