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“If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.”

“Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”

“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”

“My love, I fear the silence of your hands.”

“We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”

“The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.”

“Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.”

“The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.
They taught me I had a language in heaven
and another language on earth.”