She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and t — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and t — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and t — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and t — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and t — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
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She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
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