“Out of these ashes beauty will rise.”
“Out of the ash I rise with my red hairand I eat men like air.”
“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in order to repeat the past.”
“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
“Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike the Iran we know today, and for that we can thank the Green Movement, not another round of useless sanctions.”
“Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.”