Quotes by : Rabih Alameddine

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself....

The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on....

Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the....

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with....

I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of....

We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have....

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens.....

In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity,....

I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.