"I eat my heart out alone."

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Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.214, Random House

Azar Nafisi

#Heart Quotes #My Heart Quotes

“Im pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.”
“I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.”
“Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.”
“Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.”

Source : Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.441, Dell
“We feel like there are way too many problems in the world, and there's nothing we can do to solve them. We forget how to be compassionate and start to feel hopeless.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.”
“Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.”
“New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.”

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