8+ Diana Abu-Jaber Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Diana Abu-Jaber quotes and sayings.

For me, almost always, the answer was cake. — Diana Abu-Jaber

Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery. — Diana Abu-Jaber

If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision. — Diana Abu-Jaber

Dad says that everyone invented baklava.” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. “Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets. — Diana Abu-Jaber

The sky is white. — Diana Abu-Jaber

Love and prayer are intimately related. — Diana Abu-Jaber

When Matussem Ramoud opened his eyes each morning, his wife would still not be there. — Diana Abu-Jaber

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes. — Diana Abu-Jaber