New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

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

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of our Milky Way.

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark.

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

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.

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

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 Ah lam.

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

We both knew no bounds to our escapism.

— Hannah Lillith Assadi