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My hands shook as I stroked his arm, willing him to wake up in the same way that I used to will him to sleep when he was a baby.
“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
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“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
“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
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“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
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“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
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