When I went back to her room she was crying. We were not in the same social class but at least we were in the same bed. - Marjane Satrapi

We were not in the same social class but at least we were at the same bed.

Non si ha il diritto di autocompatirsi finché i propri problemi sono ancora accettabili... E quando invece non lo sono più, il solo modo di sopportare l'insopportabile è di riderci sopra.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

Don't worry about it, my child. Tell yourself that you are experiencing a true love story. But of course. Have you ever seen anyone write a poem about the woman he married and who yells at him four times a day? Do you think that if Romeo and Juliet had had six children together, there would have been a book about them? You're suffering! That's why you're playing so well now!