My story in Granta

My story, "Persist", in Granta.

self-control, resistance, etc.

if you emote now, you may blush later. you may also feel less bad.

surrender

as though there'd been a choice.

Madiba

“A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”

"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love."

RIP Nelson Mandela.

quotable, Iran, etc.

"there are many ways to skin a nuclear cat" -- Ken Pollack, Brookings Institution