Bahar Joon

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Ken Keyes so wisely said, “More suffering comes into the world by people taking offense than by people intending to give offense.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“Iranian Americans today find themselves caught in racial loopholes in which they are not white enough to escape racially motivated discrimination and hate crimes, but are too white to reliably secure race-based protection and legal redress for the violent and discriminatory acts committed against them.”
― Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof