Kim Mack

“As I looked at her, my heart swelled with what was nothing less than love. She was imperfect, striving, shallow, and infuriating. And yet. She had suffered in ways she had hidden from me for my entire life so far. She did, in her own way, love me more than anything. That much I knew. That much I sensed in every fiber of my soul.
That much would always be true.
And it would have to be enough.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

“Take for example the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...

It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping a sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I had assumed [her] bravado was masking deep pain and suffering. But as we sat in that hospital room, I realized [her] bravado wasn't masking her pain. It was because of it. She would fight. Always and forever.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

“... I look at you ... and I wish for you not the world, nor the owning of it, nor even success in it.
I wish for you the ability to be free.
And I hope that you experience some moments so tender and dear that they make up for a thousand harsh ones.
Remember above all to always love.
Love madly.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran