“His transcendent sense of worth had risen and caught up to him. He did not like the world he lived in, and the people in it. He was just as much a victim as he was a culprit of the seven deadly sins.”
Soroosh Shahrivar“And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“He was Lenin in a Lamborghini. He was Gandhi with a gun”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams