Natalee Nassar

“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.”
― Lydia Kang, Opium and Absinthe

“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.”
― Azadeh Moaveni, Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran

“Here I was trying to find a way home—and by home what I meant was that feeling I belonged.”
― Neda Toloui-Semnani, They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents

“You can refuse to give up, but nonetheless be broken in the process of not surrendering.”
― Dean Koontz, The House at the End of the World