Sue Len

“those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books