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طفولتي حتى الآن

by Ibrahim Nasrallah

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“May you always be happy and may all your days be filled with beautiful words.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

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“I believe that in each of us there is a small piece of history. In one half a page, in another two or three. Together we write the book of time. We each call out our own truth. The nightmare of nuances.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, War's Unwomanly Face

tags: experiences, history, life, oral-history, personal-history, subjectivity, war, women, women-s-history

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“She would not have understood, then, that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in the Stationery Shop, always. She and Bahman were one, and she and Walter were united. Kyle was her soul and Marigold would never die.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

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“She could spend an entire afternoon just looking at fountain pens and ink bottles or flipping through books that spoke of poetry and love and loss.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

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“Roya’s favorite place in all of Tehran was the Stationery Shop. It was on the corner of Churchill Street and Hafez Avenue, opposite the Russian embassy and right across the street from her school.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

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