Mirrors of the Unseen Quotes

“Except, perhaps, in Iran itself. A new round of musicians had taken up their instruments, and the beat was quickening, growing louder and wilder by the minute. Men and women had gathered to dance again and were stamping like matadors, or circling one another with gazes interlocked. I moved closer, to a marble-topped bar, where the exhausted musicians had swapped their instruments for tumblers of vodka.”
― Jason Elliot, Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran

“Egypt and Babylon became the cultural and intellectual centres of the world. But dynastic intrigue, corruption, rebellion, and an ever sterner rule had steadily weakened the empire.”
― Jason Elliot, Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran

“Aggression is the last emotion to cross their brows and the youngest are, on the contrary, almost meek, their features suggesting an untempered idealism more fitting to a gallery of poets than of soldiers.”
― Jason Elliot, Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran