there is no last time, for the desert. The desert is always” — The pickup

"But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and crossing its coherence inside her, nothing will let her be, not for a moment. Every emotion, every thought, is invaded by another."

"has never come to the lean-to, put an arm around her conspiratorially” and in Arabic, which “the foreigner understands enough, now,” she tells Julie: “He’ll come back”"

"he must depart within 14 days or face charges and deportation to his country of origin"

"tell her once and for all what her ignorant obstinacy of coming with him to this place means, when she failed, with all her privilege at getting him accepted into hers."

"the women crowded about to prevent her from so much as putting her hands in water” ** page 136."

"That was the message of that grasp on her forearm: I am a man. I am the one who is not for you but who possesses you every night: listen to me"