Nastaran

“Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.”
― Paul Auster

“People who are drowning in a sea of problems and have lost all sense of self-worth often grasp at egotism and alienation from everything outside themselves as their only point of fixity, and this can help anchor and fortify them--if only to the point of madness. This is what it can come to, then, if you live in a hostile environment and have lost all your dignity. (61)”
― Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, The Colonel

“نمیدانم. اما چه درهم پیچ و گره خورده است درونم، و چه زوزه های خوار شده ای را می شنوم، و چه نا توانمندی غریب و کشنده ای حس می کنم از بابت آنچه عقل نامیده می شود”
― محمود دولت آبادی / Mahmoud Dolat Abadi, سُلوک

“No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.”
― Paul Auster, Moon Palace