Sempre mantive o hábito prazeroso dos tempos de faculdade, de sublinhar passagens e fazer anotações. Grande parte de minhas notas de Orgulho e Preconceito, A herdeira, O morro dos ventos uivantes, Mad...
Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does , but without the joy.
Non sminuire mai, in nessuna circostanza, un'opera letteraria cercando di trasformarla in una copia della vita reale.
My toe as a lethal weapon!
Most people have a way of radiating their potential – not just what they are, but what they could become.
Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with a man you loathe.
La curiosità è insubordinazione allo stato puro.
L'empatia è il cuore di Gasby, come di molti altri romanzi. Non c'è niente di più riprovevole che restare ciechi di fronte ai problemi e ai dolori altrui.
It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.
It wasn't courage that motivated this casual, impersonal manner of treating so much pain; it was a special brand of cowardice, a destructive defense mechanism, forcing others to listen to the most hor...
It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
It is said that the personal is political. That is not true, of course. At the core of the fight for political rights is the desire to protect ourselves, to prevent the political from intruding on our...
It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.
It is also about loss, about the perishability of dreams once they are transformed into hard reality. It is the longing, its immateriality, that makes the dream pure. What we in Iran had in common wit...
Is it possible to write a reverent novel, said Nassrin, and to have it be good? Besides, thecontract with the reader is that this is not reality, it’s an invented world. There must be some blastedspac...
Is it possible to write a reverent novel, said Nassrin, and to have it be good?...
In our case, the law really was blind; in its mistreatment of women, it knew no religion, race or creed.
In fiction, every treachery and setback appears to serve some end: the characters learn and grow and come into their own. In life, it is not always clear that the hijacking of our plans is quite so pr...
I'm a perfectly equipped failure.
I wish wish I could steal the intricacies of language. But give my kids a break—remember, most of them were fed on Steinbeck’s The Pearl.