American Estrangement Quotes

“Seeing’ is not the same as ‘looking,’' he’d said. I pretended I understood the distinction.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

“Any day now the minor things are going to become major things, and when everything falls apart it’s going to fall apart fast.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

“She was too eager in her discoveries. Her eagerness compounded my powerlessness.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

“For most of my childhood there was always something more we wanted, something more we were just about to get, something that was going to turn our situation around once and for all. It was vague and indefinable, this thing, hovering nearby in the air.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

“But more pressing issues have usurped the lifelong primacy of good manners. Good manners, good graces, good looks have become things of the past. We’ve arrived at that realm where the physical body has decreed an entirely new set of rules of acceptability.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

“The march toward finiteness has begun.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

“The Goodwill will outlast Whole Foods; I’m sure of it. It’ll outlast Starbucks, too. When the boulevard crumbles and reverts to its genuine self, Goodwill will be the last man standing. That’s the cycle.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

“So why do you thank them,' she asks, 'for what is yours by right?”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

“She’s going to make this worse for us and then she’s going to blame society.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

“He was the perfect blend of beauty and power, of grace and aggression.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

“We were in agreement, and yet I had the peculiar feeling that we were referring to different things.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories