I’m planning a longer post for next Monday, but for now — short on sleep as I am — here are simply two thought-provoking quotations from the memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi.
“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”