“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.”
― Rooftops of Tehran
― Rooftops of Tehran
“It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?”
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