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Naomi Shihab Nye

Never in a Hurry

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    When my eye picked out a town named Nye on the map near Pendleton
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    It worked out. We stopped at every playground between San Antonio and Portland. (The best one, for anyone following our circuitous route, is at Baker, Oregon—an old-fashioned paradise of high slides and well-oiled merry-go-rounds.) We ate Japanese food in Santa Fe. We unrolled our moldy-smelling tent on a spot of ground in Utah and by morning were encircled by clamoring chipmunks, who had found a wealthy source of cracker crumbs. They were calling for more.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    It probably wouldn’t have made any difference had I told her that I happened to like the name, or that sometimes it’s a pleasure to become someone else midstream in your life. Had the name in question been Smithers or Lumpkin, I might have passed. But this little syllable, this glittering eye, held mine. I could almost have made it up.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    So, you’ve compromised yourself to marriage? I supposed you’d let a man publish your work?”—seemed nullified, erased. I’d walked out of that place, throat burning.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    The experience I’d had at a Women’s Writing Weekend in Austin where a visiting poet singled me out with displeasure—“What are these three names of yours?
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Later I would remember how the picnic table in our backyard spilled a rich offering of pies and green beans and potato salads, how the talk seemed infinite in its variety, how the laughter—“What a wacky idea, Babe!”—some Nye slapping me on the back with sudden gusto—rolled and rolled.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    How could you tell someone you loved them too much? It sounded ridiculous, like you just didn’t want to get a job.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Never in a Hurry

    Essays on People and Places
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