“To live into your forties thinking it was you who brightened rooms, because nothing of what you had seen so far prepared you for the truth: how small and inconsequential your so-called luster, how easily extinguished and utterly dark.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“whatever her own parents did or didn’t do was nothing short of heroic and” — Donia Bijan Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
