Murphy

“Mahdokht turned pale. She did not know how to respond to this insult. What was this guy thinking ? Who did he think she was ? What did he really want ?”
― Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran

“Two Iranians lectured him in broken English about the Bill of Rights, followed by an indignant Sri Lankan couple who scolded him for ruining their honeymoon. Brandon stepped into the woods to pee later that night and nine Venezuelans surrendered. The shit-magnet razzing roared to new heights.”
― Jim Lynch, Border Songs

“Looking at myself in the mirror, my face still ugly from the beating I'd taken from Bohlen, I couldn't figure what she saw in me. But a man's life is much in his own hands, and what I was did not have to be the measure of what I would be.”
― Louis L'Amour, Hanging Woman Creek

“Their life is neither good nor bad. It just goes on.”
― Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran