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Top 20 Hala Alyan Quotes (2025 Update)

Hala Alyan Quote: “Parallel lives, she sometimes thinks. It was a matter of parallel lives, one person having lamb for supper, the other cucumbers. With fate deciding, at random, which was which.”

1. “Parallel lives, she sometimes thinks. It was a matter of parallel lives, one person having lamb for supper, the other cucumbers. With fate deciding, at random, which was which.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “It would become the girl’s most endearing and exasperating quality, how she could become enamored of things already gone.”

2. “It would become the girl’s most endearing and exasperating quality, how she could become enamored of things already gone.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “How tiny our lives are, he thinks, swelling to impossible size with love, then shrinking again. He puts an arm around his daughter and pulls her close, this girl he will lose eventually to something. She settles against him. For long moments, they sit together in the dark, watching the.”

3. “How tiny our lives are, he thinks, swelling to impossible size with love, then shrinking again. He puts an arm around his daughter and pulls her close, this girl he will lose eventually to something. She settles against him. For long moments, they sit together in the dark, watching the.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “And life, life has swept her along like a tiny seashell onto sand, has washed over her and now, suddenly, she is old. Her mother is dead. There is no one to ask the questions she needs to ask.”

4. “And life, life has swept her along like a tiny seashell onto sand, has washed over her and now, suddenly, she is old. Her mother is dead. There is no one to ask the questions she needs to ask.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “When you call my name,” Souad yells, and the children erupt in laughter, even Manar. And her heart, her heart, rising with the sound. These are her loves. The hope returns. That treacherous hope, which rises and falls, she can taste it on her lips like salt. She will fix it. She will fix it all.”

5. “When you call my name,” Souad yells, and the children erupt in laughter, even Manar. And her heart, her heart, rising with the sound. These are her loves. The hope returns. That treacherous hope, which rises and falls, she can taste it on her lips like salt. She will fix it. She will fix it all.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “We inherit everything. Especially questions.”

6. “We inherit everything. Especially questions.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “She still loves him. This is the fact she wakes up to each morning. She checks it, sometimes, a tongue probing an aching tooth, making sure it still hurts.”

7. “She still loves him. This is the fact she wakes up to each morning. She checks it, sometimes, a tongue probing an aching tooth, making sure it still hurts.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just the unbearable losses, but the small things as well.”

8. “Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just the unbearable losses, but the small things as well.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “America wasn’t like that. You became what you coveted. Memories were short. She met Mexicans, Germans, Libyans, who spoke accented English but responded, From here, whenever asked. Souad became brown. People’s eyes glazed over when she tried to explain that, yes, she’d lived in Kuwait, but no, she wasn’t Kuwaiti, and no, she had never been to Palestine, but yes, she was Palestinian. That kind of circuitous logic had no place over there.”

9. “America wasn’t like that. You became what you coveted. Memories were short. She met Mexicans, Germans, Libyans, who spoke accented English but responded, From here, whenever asked. Souad became brown. People’s eyes glazed over when she tried to explain that, yes, she’d lived in Kuwait, but no, she wasn’t Kuwaiti, and no, she had never been to Palestine, but yes, she was Palestinian. That kind of circuitous logic had no place over there.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “The sea was like another member of the household, a recalcitrant child at times, a soothing aunt at others. She crooned them awake; she crooned them to sleep. Everywhere, there was the smell of salt.”

10. “The sea was like another member of the household, a recalcitrant child at times, a soothing aunt at others. She crooned them awake; she crooned them to sleep. Everywhere, there was the smell of salt.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “I’ve been working on the same joke for years. The punchline is you were happy all along.”

11. “I’ve been working on the same joke for years. The punchline is you were happy all along.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “An outcry in an echo chamber isn’t much of an outcry.”

12. “An outcry in an echo chamber isn’t much of an outcry.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That’s all life is, he wants to tell her. It’s continuing.”

13. “What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That’s all life is, he wants to tell her. It’s continuing.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “But he loves the mosque for its dusty smell, for the carpet prickling his feet, for the predictable hum of the muezzin more than anything celestial.”

14. “But he loves the mosque for its dusty smell, for the carpet prickling his feet, for the predictable hum of the muezzin more than anything celestial.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “It was Time, whirling her along, spinning, spinning, until it finally stopped, and she looked around, blinking, and she was thirty-two.”

15. “It was Time, whirling her along, spinning, spinning, until it finally stopped, and she looked around, blinking, and she was thirty-two.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “Marriage is sweeping the floors of a room you’re not sure you want to die in.”

16. “Marriage is sweeping the floors of a room you’re not sure you want to die in.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “Motherhood doesn’t suit me, she once confessed to Budur, drunk. I don’t have the stomach for not knowing what comes next.”

17. “Motherhood doesn’t suit me, she once confessed to Budur, drunk. I don’t have the stomach for not knowing what comes next.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “Atef wants to tell his children that they don’t understand, that their view from the sidelines is incomplete, that somehow in the murky cave of his marriage – not exactly happy but not unhappy either, given to strain, months at a time when Alia retreats into her fury and Atef into himself – is a miraculous conch of love, something unpolished but alive, pulsing.”

18. “Atef wants to tell his children that they don’t understand, that their view from the sidelines is incomplete, that somehow in the murky cave of his marriage – not exactly happy but not unhappy either, given to strain, months at a time when Alia retreats into her fury and Atef into himself – is a miraculous conch of love, something unpolished but alive, pulsing.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read.”

19. “In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “So they’ve seen their parents up close, as one does with statues in Florence. The cracked toes and chalky masonry.”

20. “So they’ve seen their parents up close, as one does with statues in Florence. The cracked toes and chalky masonry.”

Hala Alyan Quote: “How badly she wanted to shake her eldest and cry out that you don’t have to marry the first person who likes you or who says he’ll take you away.”

21. “How badly she wanted to shake her eldest and cry out that you don’t have to marry the first person who likes you or who says he’ll take you away.”

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