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Against the Loveless World
by Susan Abulhawa
What a beautiful story, that felt slightly uncomfortable at times, because it had the ring of truth behind it. Even though it's fiction, you knew stuff like this happened in the world and to actual people
I had to take breaks between parts, because it was trauma after trauma, a luxury the main protagonist didn't have. But the survival, and the way the characters remained poetic, loving, and dignified, how can I not love this despite the horrors popped out of history?
So many good quotes
“For the ones we love, nothing is ever trouble, and everything is never enough.”
“Times like this reveal the true dignity of people.”
"I liked breaking the rules I had no say in making, at the same time, that I hated how I did it…"
“I think he just means that we should fortify ourselves with love when we approach them. It’s more about our own state of grace. Of protecting our spirits from their denigration of us. About knowing that our struggle is rooted in morality and that the struggle itself is not against them as a people. But against what infects them. The idea that they are a better form of human. That God prefers them. That they are inherently a superior race and we are disposable."
I had to take breaks between parts, because it was trauma after trauma, a luxury the main protagonist didn't have. But the survival, and the way the characters remained poetic, loving, and dignified, how can I not love this despite the horrors popped out of history?
So many good quotes
“For the ones we love, nothing is ever trouble, and everything is never enough.”
“Times like this reveal the true dignity of people.”
"I liked breaking the rules I had no say in making, at the same time, that I hated how I did it…"
“I think he just means that we should fortify ourselves with love when we approach them. It’s more about our own state of grace. Of protecting our spirits from their denigration of us. About knowing that our struggle is rooted in morality and that the struggle itself is not against them as a people. But against what infects them. The idea that they are a better form of human. That God prefers them. That they are inherently a superior race and we are disposable."