Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis Quotes

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

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.

I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.

They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.