Cg Fewston Quotes

“We cannot save everyone, can we?’ I said to her as we continued walking on our way. I turned my head back only to find the spot the beggar had occupied empty.

‘Not everyone,’ she said. She took my hand once more in hers, kissed the back of it, and finished one of the sincerest axioms I had heard in sometime. ‘We must save,’ she said, ‘only the ones we can while we can.’

Leila Bakr, in A TIME TO LOVE IN TEHRAN, and speaking to her love, John Lockwood”
― C.G. Fewston

“What beautiful prisons,’ the Colonel finally said, ‘what beautiful prisons we make for ourselves in these ruins.’

Colonel Vaziri, in A Time to Love in Tehran by C.G. Fewston”
― C.G. Fewston

“All I kept thinking was how nothing was eternal. How men and women live and die and that was it; that was all. Nothing remained. Would I one day become a cannibal of morals and men? I thought. There was a certain freedom, and also darkness, in not wanting to know."

John Lockwood, in A Time to Love in Tehran by C.G. Fewston”
― C.G. Fewston

“It’s like tonight has been born,’ Ancilla whispered seductively to me as if in a dream, ‘born of a dust that enchants people into a false belief of sexual immortality.’ No one spoke like that anymore, perhaps only in the films, but that was what made her extraordinary, an exemplar to intellectual ravishment."

Ancilla, in A Time to Love in Tehran by C.G. Fewston”
― C.G. Fewston