All our lives my brother and I were caught by the fictions my parents told us–fictions about themselves as well as others. Each wanted us to judge the other in his or her favor. Sometimes I felt cheated, as if they never allowed us to have a story of our own. It is only now that I understand how much their story was also mine. Azar Nafisi
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This quote is about how the parents are also affected by the same fictions that are created. When they were children, they created their own stories to help them cope with the ones they had to hear from their parents. However, since they grew up and became parents themselves, they might have taken their own story further, making it their own.

Source: Things Ive Been Silent About: Memories

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