The houses were not Hamas.
The kids were not Hamas.
Their clothes and toys were not Hamas.
The neighborhood was not Hamas.
The air was not Hamas.
Our ears were not Hamas.
Our eyes were not Hamas.
The one who ordered the killing,
the one who pressed the button thought
only of Hamas.
— Mosab Abu Toha, from "The Wounds," Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
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My problem is that I hyperfixate on dramas I really like but then when I finish them I feel empty inside until I find a new to drama to hyperfixate on...
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We love what we have, no matter how little,
because if we don’t, everything will be gone. If we don’t,
we will no longer exist, since there will be nothing here for us.
Mosab Abu Toha, "We Love What We Have" from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
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"it/it's? What are you, not human?"
I am an eldritch deity, constructed from the scraps of this and many other broken worlds. I am the breath, the rumbling of the wild world, and the wild world itself. I am the thundering paws running through this plane, silent and impossibly loud at the same time. I am the embodiment of hate and rage, but my waters stay calm. I am the wails and the howls of joy and pain and wonder and terror you hear but convince yourself you imagined. I am larger than you will ever be, and I am small enough to be ignorable at a glance. I am the loudest and quietest voice you will ever hear. I am unimportant and the key at the very same time. I am a complicated being, but understanding me is quite simple.
No. I am not human. To call me human, would be an insult.
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A book that doesn’t mention my language or my country, and has maps of every place except for my birthplace, as if I were an illegitimate child on Mother Earth.
Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets.
— Mosab Abu Toha, from "Palestine A–Z," Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
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Mosab Abu Toha, "We Love What We Have", Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
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