Katherine Whitney > Quotes

“Time hasn’t eroded my essential Persianness. Instead, it has distilled it to a deep garnet glaze that drips an indelible pomegranate stain, with a trace of rose water that emanates from my pores, marked by the steady tone of the zarb played by the grandfather I never knew that tracks my sometimes stuttering heartbeat.”
― Katherine Whitney, My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora