“تمنيت لو كان العالم مكاناً بسيطاً كل الناس فيه اما أخيار أو أشرار.”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
“سوف تقدرينه عندما تكبرين. عندما تكونين بحاجة للبكاء دون أن يعلم أحد أنك تبكين، يمكنك تقطيع البصل.”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
“الحزن أمر غريب! إنه يتخذ أشكالاً وألواناً متعددة. تساءلت دوماً هل تمكن أحد من تحديدها كلها وإعطائها أسماءً وهمية.”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
“Now that I was lying safely in my bed, it had become much easier to be brave.”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
“Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever.”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
“إن الصمت و الظلام يتشابهان إلى حد بعيد، فالظلام غياب للضوء، و الصمت غياب للأصوات.”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
“تمنيت ان اعفو عنه ولا كن العفو لا ياتي دفعه واحده كهديه مغلفه بشريط احمرانما ياتي تدريجيا بالاضافه الي ذلك لن يمحو العفو اثار الالم اللذي سببه لي سوف يلازمني هذا الالم ما حيت لاكن هذا العفو سيساعدني ان اتسامي عن الماضي اواجه كل ما حذث كان عليه ان اصرفه عن ذهني كلي احرر نفسي منه
" مارينا”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
“Moving to America felt as splitting and eternal as death.”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
“You have to know that death is only a step we have to take to reach the other world and live, only in a different way.”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
“Nos da miedo preguntar porque nos da miedo saber.”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
“كيف يمكن لكل هذا الجمال أن يوجد في هذا العالم القاسي ؟”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
Marina Nemat
Born place: in Tehran, Iran
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“Look at life from our perspective, and you eukaryotes will soon cease giving yourselves such airs. You bipedal apes, you stump-tailed tree-shrews, you desiccated lobe-fins, you vertebrated worms, you Hoxed-up sponges, you newcomers on the block, you eukaryotes, you barely distinguishable congregations of a monotonously narrow parish, you are little more than fancy froth on the surface of bacterial life. Why, the very cells that build you are themselves colonies of bacteria, replaying the same old tricks we bacteria discovered a billion years ago. We were here before you arrived, and we shall be here after you are gone.”
― Richard Dawkins, quote from The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
“So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration. In scarlet and blue and green and purple, three by three the sovereigns rode through the palace gates, with plumed helmets, gold braid, crimson sashes, and jeweled orders flashing in the sun. After them came five heirs apparent, forty more imperial or royal highnesses, seven queens - four dowager and three regnant - and a scattering of special ambassadors from uncrowned countries. Together they represented seventy nations in the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gathered in one place and, of its kind, the last. The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, quote from The Guns of August
“There is nothing wicked about having a dreadful singing voice, any more than there is something wicked about having dreadful posture, dreadful cousins, or a dreadful pair of pants. Many noble and pleasant people have any number of these things, and there are even one or two kind individuals who have them all. But if you have something dreadful, and you force it upon someone else, then you have done something quite wicked indeed.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Grim Grotto
“Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right.
And then they glared daggers at each other.”
― John Flanagan, quote from Erak's Ransom
“And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.”
― quote from Ordinary People
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