Nazanin

“You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye