Darius the Great Deserves Better Quotes

“Being depressed doesn’t mean I’m not happy. It’s like, happy is one color. And depressed is another color. And you can paint happy, and then paint a little depression around the edges.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“Ghorbanat beram is one of those perfect Farsi phrases you can’t quite translate into English. The closest thing is: I would give my life for yours. Sometimes it was just hyperbole. But for Sohrab, it was literal. And it was literal for me too. That is what it means to have a best friend.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“You deserve people in your life who make you happy, Darius. No matter what. Just remember that. Okay?”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“That’s what being depressed does. It’s like a supermassive black hole between your sense of self and your actual self, and all you can see is the way you look through the gravitational lensing of your own inadequacies. “Hey.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“It's okay to keep something you love just for you.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“Anyway. Ameh Mona broke her leg."
"What happened?"
"She tripped over her cat.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“Sometimes I did this thing where I imagined other people I met were queer. Just because I liked to think there were lots of us around. I wondered if other people did that.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“You know how it looks in the mornings in Yazd, when it's still a little foggy, and you can see things but they're kind of greyed out and blurry around the edges?"

Sohrab nodded.

"That's what it felt like for me. When it was bad. It was like I could make out the shape of life but I could never quite see it.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“Being depressed doesn't mean I'm not happy. It's like, happy is one color. And depressed is another color. And you can paint happy, and then paint a little depression around the edges.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“And it's cool that you have this, like, connection. With your family back in Iran.'
'I guess. It's hard sometimes too. I'm still only a Fractional Persian. And sometimes the Persian part is all that matters. And sometimes, the American part is too much of a barrier.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“Chip scooped her up mid dash and swung her up to cover her face with kisses.
She squealed and laughed and said, “Nooo!”
Chip stopped. “No?”
“ Not now.”
“Ok.”
Chip set her down and she scampered off into the kitchen
I liked how he respected her boundaries, even though she was a toddler. I thought that was really cool.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“Like I said, Landon still hadn’t mastered the art of taarof, which required you to politely decline food even if you actually wanted it, and to force people to take food they said they didn’t want.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better

“With five minutes left in the second half of our game against the Willow Bluffs High School Trojans—seriously, their fight song was “Roll on, roll on, Trojans,” the sort of innuendo that constituted psychological warfare against teenaged guys—we had kept the score tied, 1–1.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Deserves Better