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"The only thing better than reading this as a birthday present to myself (it comes out the day after my birthday) is getting to read an e-arc of it now!!!!!!" — Aug 18, 2025 08:04PM
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“but one of the dying’s imperatives is to make the living see them. This is nobody’s fault, but it is everybody’s burden.”
― The Best American Short Stories 2019
― The Best American Short Stories 2019
“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.”
― Darius the Great Deserves Better
― Darius the Great Deserves Better
“For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.”
― The Faraway Nearby
― The Faraway Nearby
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