Donia Bijan

“People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.”

— Donia Bijan

“It turns out, I don't need to forget to move on.”

— Donia Bijan

“Maybe if you’ve lived as long as he had, you knew all too well that looking for blame was futile, that you…

— Donia Bijan

“whatever her own parents did or didn’t do was nothing short of heroic and”

— Donia Bijan

“Maybe we don’t really grow up until our parents die, she thought. Maybe her infant memory was forever looking to Zod and…

— Donia Bijan

“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…

— Donia Bijan

“To live into your forties thinking it was you who brightened rooms, because nothing of what you had seen so far prepared…

— Donia Bijan