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Julie is a young French woman in Marjane’s classes at school. She’s the first student to take an interest in Marjane and becomes Marjane’s first friend. All of Julie’s friends are older than Marjane, and they all are self-professed anarchists who are attracted to independent people who have faced adversity of some sort. Thus, Julie’s interest in Marjane stems from the fact that Marjane is from war-torn Iran and that she’s is living in Vienna without her parents. At 18 years old, Julie seems impossibly mature to Marjane. Though Marjane finds Julie’s behavior shocking in a variety of ways—Julie is rude to her mother, uses drugs, and is sexually active—Marjane also aspires to be more like her.
Julie Quotes in Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
The Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return quotes below are all either spoken by Julie or refer to Julie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Tyrol Quotes
She introduced me to Momo. He was two years older.
“This is Marjane. She’s Iranian. She’s known war.”
“War?”
“Delighted!”
“You’ve already seen lots of dead people?”
“Um... a few.”
“Cool!”
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Pasta Quotes
For me, not going to school was synonymous with solitude, especially now that Lucia was spending all her time with her boyfriend, Klaus.
“Do you have a problem with vacation?”
“No! But you see, at home, we had two weeks of rest for the new year and after that we had to wait until summer.”
“You’ll get used to it. Thanks to the left, there are holidays in Europe. We are not forced to work all the time [...] Come on, relax, take advantage! You don’t even know Bakunin!”
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This cretin Momo wasn’t altogether wrong. I needed to fit in, and for that I needed to educate myself.
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The Pill Quotes
That night, I really understood the meaning of “the sexual revolution.” It was my first big step toward assimilating into Western culture.
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The Vegetable Quotes
The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else’s rules. Each telephone call from my parents reminded me of my cowardice and my betrayal. I was at once happy to hear their voices and ashamed to talk to them.
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If only they knew...if they knew that their daughter was made up like a punk, that she smoked joints to make a good impression, that she had seen men in their underwear while they were being bombed every day, they wouldn’t call me their dream child.
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Julie Character Timeline in Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
The timeline below shows where the character Julie appears in Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Tyrol
After a while, an 18-year-old French girl named Julie notices Marjane. Later, Marjane realizes that Julie is only interested in her because unlike the...
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Pasta
...up. Secretly, Marjane dislikes vacation, because it means having to spend time alone. She assures Julie that she doesn’t have a problem with vacation, she’s just not used to having so...
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...the nuns allow Marjane to stay through the end of the month, Marjane immediately calls Julie and asks to stay with her. Julie agrees, so Marjane says goodbye to Lucia. The...
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The Pill
Julie and Marjane share a room at Julie’s family’s house. Marjane throws herself into her schoolwork,...
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Julie and Marjane always chat before bed. One evening, Julie moans that her mother is “unbearable.”...
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...often travels for days at a time. As she leaves for a trip, she warns Julie to not cut class and tells the girls to call their neighbor, Martin, if they...
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The party isn’t anything like Marjane expected. Julie plays Pink Floyd, which Marjane doesn’t think is party music. Instead of dancing and eating...
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A few minutes later, Julie and her partner walk out of the bedroom, naked. Julie wraps herself in a blanket...
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The Vegetable
...cuts it short, spikes it up with gel, and starts wearing eyeliner and a scarf. Julie thinks Marjane looks beautiful; Momo, Olivier, and Thierry say nothing. Even the young hall monitors...
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The Horse
When Julie and Armelle leave Vienna, Marjane moves into an apartment that she shares with eight young...
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Hide and Seek
...this point, all of Marjane’s friends have left. Olivier and Thierry are back in Switzerland, Julie is in Spain, and Momo was expelled. Marjane now has a boyfriend: 20-year-old Enrique is...
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Following the Enrique debacle, Marjane finally understands what Julie was talking about in terms of Armelle and Martin’s sexless relationship. Sex, Marjane realizes, is...
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