Best Persepolis Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm insane. I'll admit that. I have that awful condition: cleithrophobia. Father knew all of this, of course, but nowadays he never asks direct questions. I was determined to show him the world outside should be invited in--celebrated. I had every intention of doing the same thing tomorrow, and all nights thereafter, until he conceded, or, I made my escape to gay Paree.”

Found Ya Insane Peculiar Persepolis Girling Uncaged

Book:Persianality

Source: Persianality

“Some people have described Ava as religiously non-observant, but I think she's starved for love. She must have been deprived in her youth. That's why she acts out. Deep down, she didn't have a good opinion of herself. Not that she's perfect. I just think she could use a hug.”

Ya Hug Observant Persepolis Uncaged

Book:Persianality

Source: Persianality

“Although my words were temperate and well-expressed, they seemed to repulse Ava. My timing has never been precise. Ava regarded me the way a widow spider examines a housefly. She laughed loudly, a vulgar Occidental laugh, the laugh of a person who wraps their next meal in silk before draining their lifeblood. But, I have been known to imagine things.”

Ya Offbeat Persepolis Mafi Accidentals Albertalli

Book:Persianality

Source: Persianality

“A boorish laborer of some type emerged from a crowd of timid Coke-drinking men. He moved toward us with the wide menacing stance of a wrestler, black glistening hair, jutting like straight shards from beneath a Pashtun cap. Strong as an acre of garlic. He stared at me with an undignified glimmer in his eye that I wished wasn't there.”

Ya Persepolis Otherworld Uncaged Skink

Book:Persianality

Source: Persianality

“Iran. Hot for certainties, but all us women get are rhymes. Always a metaphor; always a clever turn of phrase; always quoting poets without giving a direct answer. Give us definitive wedding dates. That's certainty! Those are the certainties we ache for--as certain as the sunlight that our sun-loving botany aches for.”

Ya Offbeat Persepolis Certainties Albertalli

Book:Persianality

Source: Persianality

“De todas formas, mientras haya petróleo en oriente medio, no conoceremos la paz.”

Guerra Paz Persepolis Petróleo

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“The Tehran Derby pits Esteghlal against Persepolis, the blue versus the red.”

Football Tehran Persepolis Blue Versus Red Esteghlal Tehran Derby

Book:Tajrish

Source: Tajrish

“Chouka era muy divertida. Por desgracia, cuando dos años más tarde se casó, su esposo le prohibió verme. Para él, yo era una persona amoral”

Moral Persepolis Represión Prohibición

Book:The Complete Persepolis

Source: The Complete Persepolis

“Step outside on the terrace if you can't sleep in the heat. Don't be surprised if you find me there. The summer stars are spectacular. Just make sure you sleep near the half wall. Stay out of the sight line of the north tower. It would be scandalous if Uncle Solomon watched you sleep. You know, Islamic propriety and all. And by the way, you sleep about as quiet as an egg beater.”

Sleep Propriety Persepolis Omar Khayyam

Book:Persianality

Source: Persianality

“I'd heard so many stupidities about my country since I left Iran. People had watched this stupid movie Not Without My Daughter [in which Sally Field plays an American who rescues her daughter from her estranged in-laws in Iran]; I heard so many things like that. I did not make Persepolis for Iranians. It was my answer to the rest of the world, to say, "Let me give you another point of view."”

People World Giving Country Play Law Left Answers Views Heard Stupid Fields Daughter Let Me Stupidity Point Of View Iran My Daughter Rescue In-laws Persepolis Stupid Movie

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then took care of the production design, the actual shooting, and what was going on within each scene. It's very difficult, though, to draw a line between who did what. Because Vincent would say something, and I would add something, and at the end you have this film, yet no clear idea of who did what.”

Ideas Ends Care Film Difficult Lines Clear Design Scene Draws Add Scripts Productions Shooting Plot Persepolis Production Design

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.”

People Thinking World Looks Has Beens Stories Might Action Lost Land Thirds Universal Appeals Might Have Been Exotic Third World Persepolis

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also has dreamlike moments, and the drawings help maintain cohesion and consistency.”

Wells Done Moments Helping Stories Black White Novel Add Drawing Abstract Black And White Consistency Cohesion Universality Persepolis

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.”

People Knows Character Hands Natural Know How Type Drawing Natural Things Persepolis

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?”

Men Past Suffering Evil Cities Wonder Negative Slave Vanity Temples Rulers Palaces Whips Persepolis

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.”

Way Feels Stills Laughing Bears Limits Sorry Misfortunes Unbearable Persepolis

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?”

Kings Bravery Brave Passing Passings Triumph Persepolis

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”

Dignity Being True Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Persepolis

Book:Persepolis Two

Source: Persepolis Two