Persepolis 2 Quotes

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“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.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“You are putting yourself in serious danger...'

I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Night brings good counsel", my grandmother always told me.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:
"Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me?"
- No longer asks herself:
"Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it livable? What's going on in the political prisons?"

It's only natural! 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.

Showing your hair or putting on makeup logically became acts of rebellion.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“In retrospect, I can see that I had always known that it wouldn't between us. But after my pitiful love story in Vienna, I needed to believe in someone again...”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else's rules.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“What do you want me to say, sir? That I'm the vegetable that I refused to become, that I'm so disappointed in myself that I can no longee look at myself in the mirror? That I hate myself?”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“I wanted to die. Where were my parents to take me in their arms, to reassure me?”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Things always happen when you least expect it”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“I'm happy to see you so well-settled here. Now you must make an effort, you must become somebody. I don't care what you do later, only try to be the best. Even if you become a cabaret dance, better that you dance at the lido than in a hole in the wall.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Where was my mother to stroke my hair?
Where was my grandmother to tell me that lovers, I would have them by the dozen?
Where was my father to punish this boy who dared hurt his daughter?
Where?”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Third: live together as long as you feel truly happy. Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“İnsanlar affetmeyi bilmeli ama asla unutmamalıdır.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis