Monir Farmanfarmaian Quotes

The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~ Alexandra Monir

Are you sure?" he asked in a low voice. "Because if I had the chance ... I would spend every moment of every day with you. ~ Alexandra Monir

I want my life to have a purpose. Do you know what I mean? ~ Alexandra Monir

What was the point of loving when the people you loved were taken from you? When Death and Time were always looming and poised to strike, why did love exist? ~ Alexandra Monir

Sixteen long years of unbearable waiting. I can't do it anymore. She was supposed to return - she always did - and now I see the cruelty in this helpless waiting, living at the mercy of Time. Dragging through the days, I ask myself why I bother when I know that the one place I can find her isn't here on earth. That's it - that's enough of this - I'm done. ~ Alexandra Monir

It had been two weeks since her first real boyfriend, Jason, had broken
up with her on the eve of the first day of school. His exact words had been "Babe, you know I think you're
the best and all, but it's my senior year and I can't have the baggage of a relationship. I gotta live it up,
play the field. You get it, right?" Uh, not exactly. So Michele had to begin her junior year with a broken
heart, which grew all the more painful last week, when word spread that Jason was hooking up with a
sophomore, Carly Marsh ~ Alexandra Monir

Show me that you're real, and not just my own madness ~ Alexandra Monir

Michele realized that what she took for granted as the simple necessities of life, he saw it as a story beyond imagination. ~ Alexandra Monir

I can't live in the normal world,
I'm just chasing time
I belong in that endless whirl
The place where you're mine. ~ Alexandra Monir

What if the person you're meant to be with lives in another time? ~ Alexandra Monir

The riots that shook Abadan led many Iranians to rally to the workers' cause, partly out of instinctive sympathy but also because of the grossly unequal terms under which the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company operated. In 1947, for example, the company reported an after-tax profit of £40 million-the equivalent of $112 million dollars-and gave Iran just £7 million. To make matters worse, it never complied with its commitment under the 1933 agreement with Reza Shah to give laborers better pay and more chance for advancement, nor had it built the schools, hospitals, roads, or telephone system it promised. Manucher Farmanfarmaian, who in 1949 became director of Iran's petroleum institute, was appalled by what he found at Abadan: ~ Stephen Kinzer

A funny thing happens when you have nothing left to live for. Your existence loses all its sharp edges. There are no more steep drops, no hills to climb. Colors blur and muddle together until your surroundings are a bunch of meaningless shapes and figures painted in the same shade of gray. There's nothing that could possibly surprise you or resurrect those old sensations of joy or fear. No humans could be as unfeeling, as numb, as you are. And then, just when you're getting lulled into the monotonous routine, something snaps. No more. ~ Alexandra Monir

Why must we spend so much of our lives missing people instead of being with them? ~ Alexandra Monir

I'll find a way back to you. No matter what. I promise. ~ Alexandra Monir

One of the side effects of growing up is seeing things in a different light. ~ Alexandra Monir

It didn't matter to her whether she'd written anything brilliant. It just felt good to be able to write again. ~ Alexandra Monir

I'm being sent back to my time, but - I love you, Philip. At any age, in any body, in any era ... I love you. ~ Alexandra Monir

I've been numb for years, and I didn't realize it until after you appeared and - and made me feel something. Since then, these past two weeks I've been awake. Alive. Restless for you to return - and afraid that you wouldn't. ~ Alexandra Monir

Michele!" a voice sang out from across the hall. "Are you up? I made pancakes, come eat them
before they get cold."
Michele's eyes flickered open. Sleep or pancakes? That was a no-brainer. Her mouth was already
beginning to water at the thought of her mom's specialty. She threw on a robe and fuzzy slippers and
padded through the modest house until she reached the cozy kitchen ~ Alexandra Monir

Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. ~ Alexandra Monir

Count your blessings, not your worries. ~ Alexandra Monir