"Don't look back. There's nothing left for you in Syria.
"It was advice he couldn't have followed. A homeland was a place of the heart, a place of memory and belonging. To lose it, to leave, to watch it dissolve into agony, to be coerced into exile –– it was a severing of self."
–– Ausma Zehanat Khan, Canadian-American writer
Source: Ausma Zehanat Khan. A Dangerous Crossing. New York: Minotaur Books, 2018, p. 324.
via: Commonplace Book 2002, 2024, p. 139.
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