City of Lies Quotes

“The truth has become a secret, a rare and dangerous commodity, highly prized and to be handled with great care.”
― Ramita Navai, City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran

“When he would try to reason with her, she would tell him she did not want to be without him in the afterlife; he was all she had in this world and all she wanted for the next.”
― Ramita Navai, City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran

“Sex is an act of rebellion in Tehran. A form of protest. Only in sex do many of the younger generation feel truly free.”
― Ramita Navai, City of Lies - Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

“But the same kind of people ruled these streets;”
― Ramita Navai, City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran