The Persians Quotes

“I could barely look at the women in my family they were so beautiful. When would we ever sit like this in one place again?”
― Sanam Mahloudji, The Persians

“What is to be happy, what does it look like if not like Nounou? Does it require romantic love, being known, having influence? Nounou had none of that. For some, isn't in enough not to be sick or starving? Isn't it enough to be a person, cared for in material needs, left alone with her thoughts, nothing demanded of her? Obviously not. It was then that I knew my life was in trouble. Before that my unhappiness was just kid stuff. The kind I assumed I'd grow out of.”
― Sanam Mahloudji, The Persians

“Wenn sie hier einem Fremden in die Augen sah, konnte sie nicht davon ausgehen, dass er ihre Lieblingsspeisen kannte und ihre Lieblingsorte besucht hatte.”
― Sanam Mahloudji, The Persians

“We are born artists, us Persians, born dreamers. Even if we express it in high finance or dentistry.”
― Sanam Mahloudji, The Persians