Marjane's Home Town

Marjane's Home Town
Tehran, Iran

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

My 15 Favorite Quotations

  1. "Yes…but…when you run, your behind makes movements that are…how do you say…obscene."… "Well then don’t look at my ass!"(147)
  2. "How much? How much?"… "Fuck you! Son of a bitch!"(166)
  3. "We have two babies! We have to stock up on powdered mil and diapers."(167)
  4. "A first marriage is a dry run for the second. You’ll be more satisfied the next time. In the meantime, if you’re crying so much, maybe it mean that you still love him! There’s no reason you have to tell him everything right away."(179)
  5. "If a guy kills ten women in the presence of fifteen others, no one can condemn him because in a murder case, we women, we can’t even testify!"(183)
  6. "Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?"(143)
  7. "It was like a bad American movie. One of those films where the surprised man wraps himself in a sheet and out of modesty says: ‘Wait, I can explain everything.’"(78)
  8. "Ah, there you are! I lost my brooch. I’m sure that you’re the one who took it."(79)
  9. "Anyway, her parents clearly don’t care about her, or they wouldn’t have sent her alone."(42)
  10. "Her Tyrolean Austrian father wore pants made of leather, Her Tyrolean Italian mother had a mustache. Only her sister reminded me of Heidi."(17)
  11. "An eccentric, a puck, two orphans, and a third-worlder, we made quite a group of friends."(13)
  12. "It had been four years since I’d seen such a well-stocked store."(6)
  13. "But what in the world can this mean? She hates fruit yogurt."(25)
  14. "It’s true what they say about Iranians. They have no education."(23)
  15. It’s true what they about you, too. You were all prostitutes before becoming nuns!"(23)

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