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“Freedom isn’t the absence of rules; it’s the ability to decide which ones you’ll break for the life you want to live.”
― Neda Aria, Counting Crows

“Mom would always say, ‘We’re in Iran, but this house is America. Here, we’re free. We watch what we want, listen to what we want, do what we want.”
― Neda Aria, Counting Crows

“...What’s the purpose of an eternal life when you lose everyone and everything you love? What’s truly the purpose of that?”
“Is love the only essence of life?”
“Of course it is. What is life without it? Life without love is just a colorless outline of an unfinished masterpiece”
― Neda Aria

“Sometimes, I can’t separate the reality from dream or illusion. Sometimes, I get so tired thinking about what if I’m not really here and all the good things happened in my life were just a mirage.”
“I guess you feel it when you reach some sort of pleasure?”
“True. I’m suffering from the fear of losing happiness. The fear that the moments of joy to be taken away from me and be replaced by a tragedy”
“Cherophobia. That’s what it’s called.”
She glanced at my face “Yeah. That’s what the shrink said”
“I’ll cure your fear”
“How?”
“By eternal life”
― Neda Aria

“He wasn’t just Gus; he was possibility, the ‘what if’ that echoed through every choice I made to leave behind the chaos for the comfort of the known. And yet, I never stopped wondering—what if I had chosen differently?”
― Neda Aria, Counting Crows

“For me, all those systematic Bureaucracies of traditional schools jaded me. For me, I still couldn’t understand why we have to have a factory style education for children living in the 21st century. Why hold them in place, asking them to read and repeat and giving them a number of tasks to finish? I still have no idea how exams and objective assessments could measure human behavior or intelligence. Is it some kind of barcoding human aptitude? Is it ethical anyway?”
― Neda Aria, Ideo: The Bitter Recipes of the Truth

“We can reach a global harmony if we remove xenophobia”
― Neda Aria

“That’s the vicious truth doctor. For me and persons like me, we are experiencing a divorce from our own individual self by sensing our sensations, emotions, behaviors as not belonging to the same person or identity. That’s how you psychiatrists could explain it. That’s how society would like to codify its population. Such a ludicrous model we’ve been creating calling it civilization”
― Neda Aria

“For how long would I be trapped in the condition of melancholy without going insane?”
― Neda Aria

“Don’t dare to follow me” I threatened him. He curved his back and walked away.
“You’re just like carrots. I hate carrots” he mumbled and disappeared into the bedroom.”
― Neda Aria

“He makes me angry too. Stupid people in general. The purpose of their creation was to test my anger management skills” Versi said and jumped down his laps and stood by me.”
― Neda Aria

“In the Cloud Park, they promised to make you happy but I swear to candy gods. Immediately after you move in, they take the last bits of your happiness away and make you feel, whatever you do is a bubble on water. Do not believe what they say when they smile. I repeat. Do… Not… Believe!
Sincerely,
Rossito”
― Neda Aria, The Legend of Kelpie

“Pain is fuel. Cherish it Elexis. It pushes you to the recreation of yourself. It pushes you to be who you really are bareboned”
― Neda Aria

“The only and last words she remembered her mother told her before she became mute was,
“You have to remember Pollyanna. In Naraka, you can never ever trust anyone. “She sighed. One of those long sighs that would make her cough till she puked blood. Polly could recall the revolting rotten smell of blood, “no one is your friend here. Do you understand? No one” Umber blood dripping from the corner of her lips, “They might be nice to you only for the lake. This lake is like your life. You have to protect it. This is the only way you can live a long life” she spit the blood and mucus in a piece of filthy cloth.
“But mom. Why should we live a long life when it’s a very bad time to live and many bad people want to kill us?”
“Because your innocent dreams still have colors and power and we have to keep them that way”
― Neda Aria

“Yes. We were happy. We didn’t need Blijd to be happy. We were making it and selling it to the whole multiverse. Why we should have sold our dreams for what we already had?”
“To be happier?”
“There is no happier. If you’re happy, you’re happy”

The Dream of Dandelions - WIP”
― Neda Aria

“In a family not much different from yours
They cover every girl born and unborn
The girl shan’t talk
Shan’t run, shan’t dream
The girl shan’t expect, shan’t even exist”
― Neda Aria, Divercity: A Poetry Collection : on peace, love and empathy

“Do you want to perish in time?”
― Neda Aria, Rythm of Missing Pieces

“The Cycle will never end!”
― Neda Aria, Rythm of Missing Pieces

“When my men touched you, it gave me the power to see you such susceptible. It made me forget myself. It separated you from me, from the shame of having you. From the unbreakable cycle of repetition.”
― Neda Aria, Rythm of Missing Pieces

“Look at us. Just look how similar yet different we are. An exclusive being and a commoner.”
― Neda Aria, Rythm of Missing Pieces

“For how long are you willing to lie to yourself about who you are? You are not one of them with an expiry date. You're not bound to time.”
― Neda Aria, Rythm of Missing Pieces

“Women like her caused declination of social values.”
― Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

“How sure are you that it is your decision? You’re conditioned to think you need to have a child to be happy. But my dear, what if you don’t? Would you feel incomplete?”
― Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

“I am the revolution. I am a social change!”
― Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

“You are not a reproductive machine. Do you get it? I saved you from slavery.”
― Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

“I lost everything. My social value, my child, and my husband.”
― Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

“To all ignorant women who see their worth in their bodies. In having a husband. In the number of the children they bear. To Mandana Saberi a woman who sacrificed her meaningful being for the sake of a fake social value.”
― Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

“Death is not scary, it’s where we end up that is.”
― Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

“I’m sorry but this place is promised to be the last destination for the guests who willingly want to die.”
― Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

“Humans are more complex than that. You never know. What if there are some people who don’t literally wish to disappear? They just assume they want… or what if they just show up here in desperation… looking for someone to come and find them before they die?”
― Neda Aria