“Maybe we don’t really grow up until our parents die, she thought. Maybe her infant memory was forever looking to Zod and Pari to make things better because they always did. Because if our parents didn’t exalt us, we spend… — Donia Bijan Copy Share Image
“People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.” — Donia Bijan Copy Share
“Maybe if you’ve lived as long as he had, you knew all too well that looking for blame was futile, that you need not… — Donia Bijan Copy Share
“Maybe we don’t really grow up until our parents die, she thought. Maybe her infant memory was forever looking to Zod and Pari to… — Donia Bijan Copy Share
“It’s the same everywhere, she thought, they’re small and they live with you and you’re in love with them and they move away and… — Donia Bijan Copy Share
“To live into your forties thinking it was you who brightened rooms, because nothing of what you had seen so far prepared you for… — Donia Bijan Copy Share
