Roya Nikpour > Quotes

“Do you feel it too? It's like the night is breathing. The moon is up there, laughing and dancing for herself. and we're... we're alive among all the magic in the world. Tell me you adore the moon as well! My god! I love the magical night”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“I'd say nights feel sublime, dazzling, ecstatic, breathtaking. They're astonishing, Boris. These are the words I'd use for this.. magical divinity.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“I love the sound of crickets! Can  you hear them. they're how the night whispers her stories, won't let you feel the curse of a night's loneliness.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“- Sometimes fantasies can be more real than reality.
+ But at the same time, when you suddenly fall back into reality, you'll see the person walking by your side, was only a made up figure, Tough price.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“A writer must write about whatever the writer cares about, however they want it. You're just vomiting big words on a piece of paper so people think you know what you're talking about.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“- Sometimes, your words become a way to escape the filth you call reality.


+ But I never wanted anything more than those very words.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“Our words may shake the sturdy walls of injustice, but can they truly break them? Or are they just fading echoes, too weak to stand against. a harsh and unforgiving reality?”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“- You must know that the serious literature always comes with more status and fame, Awards, sells, everything is for that kind of literature. But do you want it?
+ I...
- There are always two kinds of people in the world. People who live for the prestige, fame and money, and those who are, well... free.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“You write to be admired. I write to live! That's why I write of trees and you about politics”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“The soul of the night has taken a hold of me since the day I met you.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“- I just wished I could write a bit...dreamlike
+ You can't afford the price. That's why you can't write about it.
- The price?
+ That it's all just a fantasy. One day you'll look up and see what you built for yourself... wasn't real. It was just a vivid dream.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“Art, alas, is indeed a cowardly effort that romanticizes the pain, unable to voice the truth. In the city's deafening silence, writing fades into nothingness.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“I wanted to change everything, I couldn't. So I changed myself and then again I got lost in the world that has nothing to do with me, with people whom I do not recognize, in the middle of a life story that's not written by me”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“Everything's strange, It feels like I am no longer myself..”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“Only writing can turn you into a pathetic mess like this”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“-I think there's no such thing as love. It's only a concept, an illusion we tend to create when the world gets tough and we need to romanticize it.
+ I completely disagree. I think real love would lift you off the ground, take you to a fairy land, where everything is possible. A land where there is no pain, and if there is, it can be cured by a true love's kiss”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“There's no place for sadness in the night, that is its enchantment.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“- You like poetry?
+ Just a bit.
- Ofcourse you dol How could you not when you're the personification of a flawless poem yourself”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“A truth beyond words. Could there be a truth. Veiled, behind, curtains of reality. Waiting to be discovered.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“Stories are the aspect of reality that people are unwilling to face. I think people are afraid of stories because of that reality,”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“Crickets. I think they're the soul of the night. They don't have anything particularly important to say, yet they speak louder than anyone else.”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove

“This fame has set me on fire. All this applause, these awards... Have they really given me anything? Or have I become just a shadow of myself, no longer knowing who I am?”
― Roya Nikpour, The Maiden’s Grove