There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.

- Etel Adnan

I love rains which carry desires to oceans.

- Etel Adnan

Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

- Etel Adnan

There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

- Etel Adnan

if you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.

- Etel Adnan

I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.

- Etel Adnan

To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and on the road. To hesitate; …

- Etel Adnan

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

- Etel Adnan

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

- Etel Adnan