Battered Quote by Azar Nafisi Download Open image “The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.” — Azar Nafisi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Battered Book Books Bruised Heart Inspirational Motivational My heart
“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel… — Laura Nowlin Copy Share Image
“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I;m convinced that the shattered world has… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“There was something about the possession of a book that was important to me. Owning it gave me proprietary rights on the story. It… — Georgia Bell Copy Share Image
“ Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to your face.… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“This is a book which I would recommend to anyone who is walking through the pain of abuse. A book of courage in the… — Ruth Hawkey Copy Share Image
“That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn't… — Jamie Craig Copy Share Image
“That moment you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone else is just getting on with their lives as though you didn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every so often, a novel comes along to remind us that what we hope is true, is true: that understanding is stronger than what… — Gary Schmidt Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Imagine you are walking down a leafy path…The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Such an act [testifying for an accused prison guard of the Shah's regime] can only be accomplished by someone who is engrossed in literature,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“That first day I asked my students what they thought fiction should accomplish, why one should bother to read fiction at all. It was… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be stubborn for something as well” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“You ask me what it means to be irrelevant? The feeling is akin to visiting your old house as a wandering ghost with unfinished… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess!… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“Oh course he had come for her, her cranky white knight with his battered but not broken K9 partner in tow.” — Katie Ruggle Copy Share Image
I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“We live in a world in which women are battered and are unable to flee from the men who beat them, although their door… — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but… — George VI Copy Share Image
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged… — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
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