“We are all cursed. We live in the era of the curse. A world that cannot be fixed. The best thing would be an alien ship. Another planet. One with three moons. But you, I saw you in my dreams. I saw you coming. You came to heal my broken heart. That's why I named you Ahlam.”

“You know the most common phrase in the movies is 'let's get out of here?”

“Look at the lonely fisherman,' my father says.'Look at his view,' my mother says.”

“I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.”

“With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.”

“We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because it was only a dream.”

“Through my sudden tears, the train lights smeared like shooting stars. Lying before the rippling blue window, below the slurred lights of the world above, it was as if we were underwater.”

“Like hunting for a dead beloved's face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before.”

“We both knew no bounds to our escapism.”

“I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.”

“One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.”