Quotes by : Omar El Akkad

What is the first anesthetic?Wealth.And if I take your wealth?Necessities.And if I demolish your home,....

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her....

She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.

Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?""Come now,"....

All her life she'd had little interest in the workings of boys' minds, which she imagined only as a set....

And what she understood-what none of the ones who came to touch Simon’s forehead understood-was that....

Everyone fights an American war.

Her anger at the young woman's stubbornness quickly prompted recollections of all the times she'd found....

It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously....