Ryanna

“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

“Where did they come from, her children? And how did they arrive already themselves, and unlike anyone else?”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

“The thing is, Peter, grown-ups don't know what they're doing any better than kids do. That's the truth.”
― Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes