love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.

Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation.

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

Always" is a good word to believe in.

love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.