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Like a Love Story QUOTES

Like a Love Story QUOTES

1 " It's amazing how gung ho he is about saving the lives of fetuses, but then he turns a blind eye to all the actual humans DYING right in front of him. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

2 " He also keeps a pot of jelly beans and adds a jelly bean to the pot every time someone dies. He says that just before he dies, he will eat everyone so that his friends will be with him. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

3 " I knew that I liked it when boys' swim trunks fell. But the fact that this would kill me, this was something I did not know until that moment. Until Time magazine informed me that I would die soon.
I've been living in fear ever since. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

4 " I just have too much to scream about to leave just yet. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

5 " How can you say that?' I ask. 'Jose is dead. Everyone who's good in this world is dead or dying. The world is ending. Our world. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

6 " You know I've wanted to scream at churches long before this disease,' he said. 'This is a lifelong dream come true. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

7 " Isn't love supposed to conquer all?
Then let it conquer AIDS.
Reza massages the knots in my shoulders as Stephen strokes my hair. And I keep saying the words.
I want love to be enough. I'll keep saying it until it is. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

8 " There should be a limit on how long any human being has to wear braces. - Reza "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

9 " What we did. What we fought for. Our history. Who we are. They won't teach it in schools. They don't want us to have a history. They don't see us. They don't know we are another country, with invisible borders, that we are people. You have to make them see. You have to remember it. And to share it. Please. Time passes, and people forget. Don't let them. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

10 " Tell your story until it becomes woven into the fabric of our story. Write about the joys and the pain and every event and every artist who inspires you to dream. Tell your story, because if you don't, it could be wiped out. No one tells our stories for us. And one more thing. If you see an elderly person walking down the street, or across from you at a coffee shop, don't look away from them, don't dismiss them, and don't just ask them how they're doing. Ask them where they have been instead. And then listen. Because there's no future without a past. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

11 " I always thought my own father hated me, but Stephen said to me that nobody truly hates anyone. Hate is just fear in drag, he said. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

12 " The most important four-letter word in our history will always be LOVE. That’s what we are fighting for. That’s who we are. Love is our legacy. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

13 " Love might just happen to them, but for us, it’s not as easy. For us, it’s a fight. Maybe someday it won’t be. Maybe someday love will just be . . . love. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

14 " Not just me,” Stephen says, looking to Jimmy. “Us. All of us. What we did. What we fought for. Our history. Who we are. They won’t teach it in schools. They don’t want us to have a history. They don’t see us. They don’t know we are another country, with invisible borders, that we are a people. You have to make them see.” Stephen takes a strained breath. “You have to remember it. And to share it. Please. Time passes, and people forget. Don’t let them. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

15 " Keep creating beauty. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

16 " Maybe we’re all the lucky ones,” Stephen says. “We had love. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

17 " And I wish she knew that her ability to even utter all these doubts out loud means she thinks highly enough of herself to respect the emotions inside her. I would never let my doubts leave the prison of my brain. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

18 " Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” —Judy Garland "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

19 " You okay?” I look away. She asks me this question a lot, and I never like it. We don’t ask this question in my family. We know that the answer will always be yes, but that the truth will always be no, so what’s the point in asking the question? "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story

20 " The most important four-letter word in our history will always be love,” Judy says, before Art finishes with “That’s what we are fighting for. That’s who we are. Love is our legacy. "

― Abdi Nazemian , Like a Love Story