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“I nearly forgot about my promise to write to you whenever happiness sneaks into my “little heart.” I’m afraid a letter filled with happiness risks never being written, so let me write to you without conditions; don’t deprive me of the sense of satisfaction I used to get when addressing you”
― Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back

“I had my own immature ideas, based on sentimental Hollywood dramas, of how it should be between father and son, and made no effort to understand my father on his own terms. Now that I know how much we have in common, what I regret most of all is the fact that we could have been friends.”
― Raja Shehadeh