Natalee Nassar
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Here I was trying to find a way home—and by home what I meant was that feeling I belonged.
“There is honor in having a profession, in not being idle. They had no money; there is no dishonor in being poor. I am glad you told me about them.”
― Opium and Absinthe
― Opium and Absinthe
“It struck me that she had been a pretty woman, once upon a time. Before she’d decided she didn’t want to be anymore. Before she’d decided she didn’t want to be anything to anybody.”
― Stay
― Stay
“Life is sometimes using a knife to comb your hair, because absolutely nothing else works, and life always finds a way through.”
― Find Layla
― Find Layla
“Justice work is complex and imperfect and incremental, built on past victories and by seeing the best intentions in one another. Every step counts.”
― I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir
― I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir
“As we drove away, I asked Dariush whether it was not a relief that under Khatami, such run-ins happened a couple times a year, instead of every weekend. He gave me a searching look. “However infrequent, I do not find any consolation in the fact that my fate is determined by the whim of an armed sixteen-year-old.”
― Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
― Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
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