“Don't take life too serriously; you'll never get out of it alive!”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Trust me. A storm is brewing inside this cool cat now. She'll gradually break down and you'll see what's behind the clouds.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Loving is a laborious and complex business.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren’t just fantasies, you know. They’re so much a part of the people who write them that they practically teach their readers invaluable lessons about life.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Her favorite color is blue. She says that blue is associated with vastness; the skies are blue, the oceans are blue.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Sometimes it's easier not to think about things you can't do anything about.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“- Excellent, excellent, your plan is working. -
- What plan? - I ask.
- The plan to make her wonder if you love her. Nothing makes a women more curios then the suspicion that she’s loved by someone. She’ll do anything to confirm it now, you see. She’ll go out of her way to find out if you really do. That’s just human nature. Who doesn’t want to be loved? -”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Adımı onun ağzından işitmek nedense beni daha özel biri haline getiriyor..
Omzuma dokunuyor. ” Çok duyarlısın. Senin bu yanını seviyorum.”
‘Sen’ ve ‘seviyorum’ sözcüklerini söylediği anda içimde muhteşem bir duygu geziniyor. Tanrım, keşke diğer iki sözcüğü cümlesinden atsaydı...”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Vrijeme je možda najvrednija stvar koju svaki čovjek posjeduje,ali to je vrlo teško shvatiti kada prolazi sporo.Mnogo ga je lakše smatrati dragocjenim kada leti i brzo izmiče.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Nemoj tako ozbiljno shvaćati život,ionako iz njega nećeš živ izaći.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“...a u ljubavi se oslanjaš na intuiciju vlastitog srca...”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“I couldn't stand by and watch you put yourselves in harm's way. No way. And fuck those SAVAK bastards, and their Western masters, and the grand servant of the West. Fuck anyone who wants to put me in jail because I stood by my friends to mourn the death of a hero, screw them all. I don't care if I have to spend the rest of my life behind bars, I don't, I really don't. I learned today that friendship is worth making sacrifices for. Doctor proved that life is a small price to pay for your beliefs.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Život je takav,znaš.Sve se mora izjednačiti.Ničega ne smije biti ni previše ni premalo.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Pogledaj sve ovo",pokazuje rukom prema nebu."Vidiš li koliko je golemo?A ipak je uređeno,planirano?Bog je svoja pravila i zakone primijenio na sve,pa zašto bi ti bio iznimka?”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“...jer bih s tobom radije u pakao nego bez tebe u raj!”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Life is not fair all the time.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Has anyone ever told you that you have That?” I must look thoroughly confused. “You’ve never heard of That?” he asks, surprised. I shake my head no. “It’s a priceless quality that’s impossible to define, really,” he explains, “but you recognize it in the actions of great people.” Showering friends and strangers with inflated but disingenuous compliments is a customary tradition in Iran called taarof, but looking into Doctor’s eyes, I don’t think he’s taarof-ing. Some”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“...ponekad je jednostavnije ne razmišljati o stvarima koje ne možeš promijeniti...”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“I write that crime is an unlawful act of violence that can be committed by anyone, and that punishment is the consequence designed for criminals who don't have the economic means to cover it up. Throughout history, men of wealth and power have been exempt from facing the consequences of their evil deeds. Crime, therefore, can be defined as an offense committed by an individual of inferior status in society. Punishment is a consequence forced on the perpetrator of the crime only if he occupies one of the lower steps of the social ladder”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Osvojila mi je srce poput nemilosrdnoga vojskovođe i sad sam rob misli i osjećaja kojima ne mogu vladati.Misli mi lutaju u pravcima koje ne odabirem sam i obuzimaju me napadi tjeskobe kojima ne znam izvor.Umirem od želje da je vidim,da razgovaram s njom,da je pogledam u oči...”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“Ako se ikada budeš osjećala izgubljeno, samo pogledaj na nebo i vidjet ćeš nas kako svjetlucamo zajedno!”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“The mental haze is like a tent that I crawl into to remain safe from what seems baffling and threatening to me. And that is how I get through the night.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
“[America]'s higher education system is excellent, both in terms of quality and accessibility. Here anybody can go to college. Many countries simply can't accommodate many students. And by the way, most people who came here in the seventies came to get an education. They didn't wake up one morning and say, 'I'm going to America to be free.' they said, 'I'll go there to get an education.' That's an important distinction. It was only after they were here for a while that they fully appreciated the freedoms we enjoy here.”
― Mahbod Seraji, quote from Rooftops of Tehran
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“You're shaking."
"I'm not used to people trying to kill me."
"Really? I hardly notice anymore.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Shadow and Bone
“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“The risk her stories posed to others—and to herself—was more subtle. When she was younger, she had used secrets as if they were currency, but she’d found out how secrets could use her instead by becoming stronger than she. It happened whenever she couldn’t stay away from a secret—drawn to it the way Georg Weiler was drawn to the bottle—though she sensed it would be better for her not to know.”
― Ursula Hegi, quote from Stones from the River
“While I pressed the tissue to my face, Beck said, “Can I tell you something? There are a lot of empty boxes in your head, Sam.”
I looked at him, quizzical. Again, it was a strange enough concept to hold my attention.
“There are a lot of empty boxes in there, and you can put things in them.” Beck handed me another tissue for the other side of my face.
My trust of Beck at that point was not yet complete; I remember thinking that he was making a very bad joke that I wasn’t getting. My voice sounded wary, even to me. “What kinds of things?”
“Sad things,” Beck said. “Do you have a lot of sad things in your head?”
“No,” I said.
Beck sucked in his lower lip and released it slowly. “Well, I do.”
This was shocking. I didn’t ask a question, but I tilted toward him.
“And these things would make me cry,” Beck continued. “They used to make me cry all day long.”
I remembered thinking this was probably a lie. I could not imagine Beck crying. He was a rock. Even then, his fingers braced against the floor, he looked poised, sure, immutable.
“You don’t believe me? Ask Ulrik. He had to deal with it,” Beck said. “And so you know what I did with those sad things? I put them in boxes. I put the sad things in the boxes in my head, and I closed them up and I put tape on them and I stacked them up in the corner and threw a blanket over them.”
“Brain tape?” I suggested, with a little smirk. I was eight, after all.
Beck smiled, a weird private smile that, at the time, I didn’t understand. Now I knew it was relief at eliciting a joke from me, no matter how pitiful the joke was. “Yes, brain tape. And a brain blanket over the top. Now I don’t have to look at those sad things anymore. I could open those boxes sometime, I guess, if I wanted to, but mostly I just leave them sealed up.”
“How did you use the brain tape?”
“You have to imagine it. Imagine putting those sad things in the boxes and imagine taping it up with the brain tape. And imagine pushing them into the side of your brain, where you won’t trip over them when you’re thinking normally, and then toss a blanket over the top. Do you have sad things, Sam?”
I could see the dusty corner of my brain where the boxes sat. They were all wardrobe boxes, because those were the most interesting sort of boxes — tall enough to make houses with — and there were rolls and rolls of brain tape stacked on top. There were razors lying beside them, waiting to cut the boxes and me back open.
“Mom,” I whispered.
I wasn’t looking at Beck, but out of the corner of my eye, I saw him swallow.
“What else?” he asked, barely loud enough for me to hear. “The water,” I said. I closed my eyes. I could see it, right there, and I had to force out the next word. “My …” My fingers were on my scars.
Beck reached out a hand toward my shoulder, hesitant. When I didn’t move away, he put an arm around my back and I leaned against his chest, feeling small and eight and broken.
“Me,” I said.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Forever
“I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Storm Front
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