Quotes by Soroosh Shahrivar

Winning Expo 2020 marked the city’s coronation and the world could no longer deny Dubai its rightful status as one of the era’s more illustrious cities. The people who flocked there were looking for some sort of magic to occur in their lives, and life on the beach under these concrete gazebos offered many blessings. Some found riches. Some found religion. Some found love. And some, most importantly of all, found themselves.

Pilgrims from all over the world were making their way to the place deemed the pearl of the Middle East. The city was reminiscent of a modern-day Persepolis. Its buildings, like towering pillars, tested the sky’s limit. The evenly paved roads belched with the smell of new tarmac, as if a million masons woke up every morning and by hand lay asphalt one grain at a time. People of all colors, ethnicities, creed and social statuses came bearing money, knowledge or experience in order to build their legacies in the new kingdom, sprouting out of the desert. Dubai had arrived.

Luck is the devil with a halo

People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.

Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity

The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes

In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness

He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did

He was Lenin in a Lamborghini. He was Gandhi with a gun

Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.

And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.