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1 " Mahtab looked out of the window at the moon clearing the rooftops, bathing everything around in its silver light. She sighed, envying Nasim's freedom. For just like Mahtab's namesake, as the moonlight was beholden to the sun, she was beholden to her family. "
― Azin Sametipour , Tehran Moonlight
2 " On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line. "
3 " It was a sin. Kissing a guy who wasn't betrothed to her was wrong in every way. Everyone knew that. It was haram. Forbidden. You would go to hell for that... "
4 " Like spilled water, once a girl's reputation is ruined, it will never come back "
5 " Because in the end, reality always betrays you. But memories they stay with you forever, beautiful, loyal, and pure. "
6 " She closed her eyes and forgot about everything. Forgot that this was a sin and that it was forbidden in her faith. All she coukd think of was that she was awake. Awakened by love. Awakened by Ethan. "
― Azin Sametipour , Awakened by Love
7 " You made me rejoin this culture, a part of me that i didn't know i had. You even made me like this "daran-dasht" this crazy city! You are my moonlight, my Tehran moonlight. I love you. "
8 " She was Zoha, an achiever and a top student in her own right. She didn’t want to just be someone’s fling. She wanted to be someone’s love. Someone’s only love. "
9 " She had no common ground with him, no future. She was Muslim, and he wasn’t. It was as simple as that. "
10 " Zoha was emphatic that she would not bring that kind of shame to her family. Not at any cost. "
11 " Do people who don’t wear a scarf here go to hell?” Afra asked. “Yes, they do. If they think the summers here are hot, they should wait to see how hot hell is "
12 " She wanted to pull Afra into her arms and tell her that she didn’t have to wear a scarf if she didn’t want to, because God was so much bigger and more forgiving than what her parents told her. "
13 " You are their role model, Zoha. Everyone looks up to you. You cannot let them down. "
14 " There was no feeling worse in the world than fearing the day your family found out about the real “you” and not accept you for who you were. "
15 " Now that they are religiously engaged, she can remove her scarf in front of him and hold hands. And they won’t commit any sins that way, you know.” The other two women nodded. It was called seekeh, a premarriage prayer to allow the girl and boy to be together without sin before they were married. "
16 " Nothing bothered Zoha more than this—the fact that everyone had to live to their standard or be looked down upon. "
17 " In Islam, no matter what the age, a woman’s place was always behind a man; something Zoha had struggled to accept all her life. "
18 " If God wanted her happy, here was the happiness. His name was Ethan. "
19 " You are such a beautiful challenge. "
20 " Zoha closed her eyes for a fraction of a second. When she opened her eyes, she knew she was no longer the same Zoha she had been when she woke up that morning. Now, she had been awakened by love. "
