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Hisham Matar quotes: I wanted everything good in the world for him; every dream he had, all of his secret plans, to come true. I suddenly was glad that Mona was his.

I wanted everything good in the world for him; every dream he had, all of his secret plans, to come true. I suddenly was glad that Mona was his.

Hisham Matar quotes: My silence made her say things she didn't need to say..

My silence made her say things she didn't need to say..

Hisham Matar quotes: One's nature is like a mountain

One's nature is like a mountain

Hisham Matar quotes: Nationalism is as thin as a thread, perhaps that's why many feel it must be anxiously guarded

Nationalism is as thin as a thread, perhaps that's why many feel it must be anxiously guarded

Hisham Matar quotes: The world had to be sliced into hours to fill; otherwise you could go mad with loneliness.

The world had to be sliced into hours to fill; otherwise you could go mad with loneliness.

Hisham Matar quotes: The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

Hisham Matar quotes: I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the move, the clouds, the wind ...

I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the move, the clouds, the wind ...

Hisham Matar quotes: Can you become a man without becoming your father?

Can you become a man without becoming your father?

Hisham Matar quotes: There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.

There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.

Hisham Matar quotes: I didn't know you were going to be so beautiful, fill my heart..

I didn't know you were going to be so beautiful, fill my heart..

Hisham Matar quotes: It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

Hisham Matar quotes: I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

Hisham Matar quotes: In the end all that remains are numbers, the measurement of distances, the quantity of things.

In the end all that remains are numbers, the measurement of distances, the quantity of things.

Hisham Matar quotes: There are times when my father's absence is as heavy as a child sitting on my chest.

There are times when my father's absence is as heavy as a child sitting on my chest.

Hisham Matar quotes: Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

Hisham Matar quotes: A corrupt mind turns everything to its advantage.

A corrupt mind turns everything to its advantage.

Hisham Matar quotes: We are...two open pages of the same book

We are...two open pages of the same book

Hisham Matar quotes: Naoma, and to the rest of the world she was Um

Naoma, and to the rest of the world she was Um

Hisham Matar quotes: And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that "knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that "knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

Hisham Matar quotes: I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

Hisham Matar quotes: Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

Hisham Matar quotes: It's one thing not to fear death, another to sing under its sword.

It's one thing not to fear death, another to sing under its sword.

Hisham Matar quotes: Perhaps the world is fair and balanced after all; no one gains and no one loses or no one gains and everyone loses equally.

Perhaps the world is fair and balanced after all; no one gains and no one loses or no one gains and everyone loses equally.