Olivia Smith > Olivia's Quotes

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“To those like the misguided; look at the story of Man, and come to your senses! It
is not the destination, but the trip that matters. What you do today influences tomorrow, not the other way around. Love Today, and seize All Tomorrows!”
― Nemo Ramjet, All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man

“The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.”
― Andrea Dworkin

“We were not in the same social class but at least we were at the same bed.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“And why is it the women who have to be virgins? Why suffer torment to satisfy an asshole? Because the man who demands "virginity" from a women is nothing but an asshole! Why don't we behave as Westerners do!? For them, since the problem of sex is resolved, they can move on to other things! This is the reason they progress!!!”
― Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries

“Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I am the last prophet.
A woman?”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...”
― Sappho

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho

“In any case as long as there is oil in the middle east they will never have peace”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.”
― Sappho

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“In every religion, you find the same extremists.”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

“I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“But is it her fault that she was born where she was born???”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.”
― Marjane Satrapi

“How wretched is the man who sees the perfect opportunity and still waits for a better one.”
― Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

“The problem has never been the ways that victims don’t tell, so much as it has been that some victims aren’t seen as valuable enough to protect.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“Girls like me seemed to be the object of the conversations and not full participants, because we were a problem to be solved, not people in our own right.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi