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" i loved my little sister, really."  "it wasn't the kind of thing I could ever say to anyone. Guys weren't supposed to love their sisters. We can't admit to having tea parties or playing dolls with them because thats unmanly." "but i did play dolls with her and had tea parties, and I wasn't ashamed of it, I just didn't tell anyone about it. Thats normal, right?" (pg 16)

He seems to be questioning himself, and unsure of himself

He takes medication for depression - and having depression may affect his confidence. (pg.28)

"Javaneh had the smooth, olive toned look of a true persian, arched eyebrows and all. Mom inhereted mamous pale couloring which ment i didn't even get half a dose of persian melanan" (pg.31)

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"darius the great was a diplomat at an conquerror. And I was just me" "Like I said may parents were sting themselces ip for disapointment. "darius the great was an important figure and very respected and darious feels as though his parents set themselves ip for disapointment bu naming him after darius the great who was a acclaimed conquerror, feels like he doesn't compare (158)
"how could I be a tourisit in my own past? " (230)
"our family was woven into the fabric of yazd. Into the stones and the sky" (230)

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"his cheeks were turning red. I didn't know anuthing could make hsohrab blush. it made me like him even more" (177)

"Maybe I i already knew him, maybe" (220)

"it's okay I dont have one either, I almost smiled. Almost." (214)

"It made sense. If my sister had a crush on someone sohrab was a good chouice " (232)

" ' you really do love sohbrad huh. ' he's the best friend Ive ever had.' dad looked at me dor a moment. Like he knew there was more." 287

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His grandma and oma dads moms didn't say that they loved us very often. (pg.73)
Darius grandparents on his dads sode dont say thay they love you a lot but he know thay they care about him and laleh. (75)

"for love farbia bahrami, love was an oppurunity not a burden." page 75

"I loved sohrab I really did. And I loved being Darioush to him"

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Darius thinks he and his father are nothing alike (pg 14).

Something he and his father have in common is not being in the same "reality" as his mother and sister. (pg.24)

Unlike his friend, he doesn't get asked where he is from until they know his name because he doesn't look perasian. (pg 31)

He got "randomly selected" to go through the bomb test thing by an airport security (pg 53)

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"persianas has strong feelings about applications of rice. no true persain ever popped theirs."  (pg 18)

farsi is their langauge, deeply poetic. ways of communicating based on formality. (pg 20)

"chaharshanbeh suri is the tuesday night before Nowruz. Fire jumping occurs and theres a mountain of persian food. (pg 31)

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Trent and his friends stole Darius's tires and seat and put truck nuts on his bike.  They had a zero tolerance policy for stealing, but apparently it didn't cover his bike seat. (pg 13)

Trent called darius a terrorist

Chip "ripped" open his back pakc

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He has a friend named Javaneh who always has dr.pepper and if he says anything suprising, it seems to come out her nose. He told her that they were moving.

"Javaneh had the smooth, olive toned look of a true persian, arched eyebrows and all. Mom inhereted mamous pale couloring which ment i didn't even get half a dose of persian melanan" (pg.31)

Trent called darius a terrorist (pg.39)

(page 192) Sohrab was a good listener

Sohrabs father is in jail (around 192)

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Dad didn't believe him .  "what makes you think it was Trent?" (pg 12)"

How do you know it was them?" (pg 13)

Darius sometimes thinks about how is nothing like his father (pg 14)

Mom is UX designer, dad is partner in architecture (pg.15)

Family: mom, dad, Laleh (second grade) and Darius. (pg 16)

Dad and Darius watch Star Trek every night. (pg 18)

"it always seemed like farsi was the special thing with lelah and mom, like our star trek." "that left two of us in the dark when we were gathered with moms friends. it was the onlt time dad and I were on the same team." page (21)

Though he was happy to talk to his Mamou, he never knew how to talk to her (pg 23)

"it wasn't like i didn't want to talk to mamou. I always wanted to talk to her but it was hard. it didnt' feel like she was half a world away, it felt like she was half a universe away - like she was coming from some alternate reality. It was like laleh belonged to that relality but dad and I were just a guest." (pg 24)

Him and dad take meds for depression. (pg 28)

sister seems perfect (pg.44)

Has trouble talking to his grandparents, kind of awkaward interaction (pg.47)

Feels like dad doesn't love him (page 192)

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Darius (and his father) take medication for depression.

While in the search to find the right medication for darius, the one he was on for three months put him into big moodswings (pg.33)

dad is convinced that darius is going to (...) Page 192.

Has gained some weight because of meds.

feels like dad doesn't like him "it felt goog to have a thing with dad, when i could have him to myself for 47 minutes and he could act like ennhoyed my companry for a span of one episode (18)

Feels like he doesn't fit in with mom either, dpesn
t fee; persian or american.

Feels as if dad is disapointed in him (32)

dad is attentive to darius diet.

"and i knew stephen kellner was relived to have another chance, a newe child who wouldn't be such a disapointment. (132)

I took my pills and gulped down the whole glass of water. Dad stood next to me, watching, like he was worried I was going to choke. He had this look on his face, the same disappointed look he had when I told him about how Fatty Bolger had replaced my bicycle’s seat with blue truck nuts.

He was ashamed of me.

He was ashamed of us.

Übermensches aren’t supposed to need medication.