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Quotes by Iranian Authors
"I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light."
"What can I tell you about the alchemy of twins?Twins are two bodies that dance to each other's joy.Two minds that drownin each other's despair.Two spirits that flywith each other's love.Twins are two separate beingsconjoined at the heart!"
"God's existence is reaffirmed once we fall in with another."
"Love isn't blind. Maybe we are all born blind and love finally gives us sight."
"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
"Each of us is like all of us and like no one else."
"If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time."
"Don't say to yourself, 'Everyone argues!' to justify and normalise your fighting, when the most natural thing is to love."
"If you wait until you find something to speak up for, something that you're passionate about that concerns you and attacks your own beliefs, then eventually, when the day finally arrives, you might also find that you have forgotten how to speak."
"Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live."
"Whenever you keep score in love, you lose."
"My dear, please be careful.You no longer live only for yourself.You live for me as well."
"Think the tree that bears nutrition:though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fruition.So give all the love you have.Do not hold any in reserve.What is given is not lost; it shall return."
"His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him."
"Hope.It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat."
"And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me."
"Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment."
"Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening."
"The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love."
"I am looking for the one I can't fool."
"Loneliness is a strange sort of thing.It creeps up on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark, strokes your hair as you sleep. It wraps itself around your bones,squeezing so tight you almost can't breathe. It leaves lies in your heart, lies next to you at night, leaches the light out from every corner.It's a constant companion, clasping your hand only to yank you down when you're struggling to stand up.You wake up in the morning and wonder who you are. You fail to fall asleep at night and tremble in your skin."
"I'm in love with you.""Good grief." She kept walking."
"Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark."
"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
"A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, "It can't get any worse! You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that."
"We've been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we're supposed to. But it's a lie, it's all a lie; every person, place, thing and idea is a lie. I do not function properly. I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe."
"Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them."
"I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together."
"Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell."
"Why didn't you write all this time?Did you not remember us in a song?A dance?In the skies littered with stars?Did you not get drunk?Why didn't you write all this time?Did you not remember us in a film?A book?In idyllic dusks and dawns?Did you not get high?It is good that you didn't.For all is well. I am drunk and dazed.I have already forgotten youand your bewitching ways."
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