Complete Persepolis Book Quotes & Sayings

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk. — George Santayana

I was born out of a Vegas marriage: My parents got married three days after they met. — Elle King

Even awful people can be polite for a few minutes," their father told them. "Any longer than that and they revert to the bastards they really are. — Kevin Wilson

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be. — Wallace D. Wattles

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions. — Joe Torre

Did you see it?" asked Yarvi.
"I had that questionable privilege."
"What do you think?"
"She is wretched. She is all pride and anger. She has too much confidence and too little. She does not know herself." The figure pushed back her hood. A black-skinned old woman with a face lean as famine and hair shaved to gray fuzz. She picked her nose with one long forefinger, carefully examined the results, then flicked them away "The girl is stupid as a stump. Worse. Most stumps have the dignity to rot quietly without causing offense."
"I'm right here," Thorn managed to hiss from her hands and knees.
"Just where the drunk boy put you." The woman flashed a smile at Brand that seemed to have too many teeth. "I like him, though: he is pretty and desperate. My favorite combination. — Joe Abercrombie

There is no law stronger than that of
magic. - Kian — Kailin Gow

On the morning appointed for Admiral Croft and Mrs. Croft's seeing Kellynch-hall, Anne found it most natural to take her almost daily walk to Lady Russell, and keep out of the way till all was over; when she found it most natural to be sorry that she had missed the opportunity of seeing them. — Jane Austen

Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children. — Dacia Maraini

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are. — Errol Flynn

What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus's death on the cross was the measure of God's compassion for someone? — Gloria Furman