Nadine Rashed

“Connection,” I said. “Not just between one idea and another, but between people.”
― Jasmin Darznik, Song of a Captive Bird

“I’d long since discovered the pleasure of breaking a rule, but that day I coupled it with an even greater pleasure: telling a story.”
― Jasmin Darznik, Song of a Captive Bird

“Love is another country. No, I’d go further than that. The difference between foreign countries is never so great as the difference between being in love and not being in love. Not only does the world around you seem changed when you are in love—bright where it was once dull, lively and varied where it was once routine—but people are different, not least of all you yourself, though the difference might be that you’ve returned to your native self.”
― Jasmin Darznik, Song of a Captive Bird

“In Abadan I was different, but no one particularly cared. A woman could see herself better where she wasn’t known, I decided.”
― Jasmin Darznik, Song of a Captive Bird