Edward W. Said, the author of The Question of Palestine. (Sophie Bassouls / Getty)
What all Palestinians refer to today as the Palestinian Revolution is not the negative distinction of being unlike others, but a positive feeling of the whole Palestinian experience as a disaster to be remedied, of Palestinian identity as something understandable not only in terms of what we lost but as something we are forging–a liberation from nonentity, oppression, and exile.
Her breasts though small were beautifully shaped beneath her blouse, and her hips though narrow gave her long, dusty skirt a sharp, sensual angularity. As she moved back from the vampire, I saw the tears standing in her eyes like glass in the flicker of the lights, and I felt my spirit contract in fear for her, and in longing. Her beauty was heartbreaking.
page 220, Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
I chose this quote purely for the use of the phrase “sensual angularity”. Great phrase.
