Abigail

“And whenever you look back and realize something was the last of something - like the last moment you ever saw your grandfather's house or the smell of the street you lived on or Orich bars or whatever - it can be an ordinary thing, but it also becomes the only thing you have, the clearest memory, and it gains all this extra meaning.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“One, every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive. And two, the story of Aziz could have gone a million different ways.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“We don’t owe anyone our sadness, but the sharing of it is what friends do. It makes the sadness less.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“We don’t live in the heroic age. Our separation isn’t some great poetic struggle. It’s just pain. It’s just ripping bodies apart.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue