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Sohrab’s Uncle/Agha Rezaei
Ali-Reza is a boy whom Hossein and Sohrab regularly play soccer with. At first, Darius thinks Ali-Reza is a friend of Sohrab’s—but he soon realizes that the two are more like enemies. This, Sohrab explains later, is because Ali-Reza is very prejudiced against Bahá’ís. Darius ultimately concludes that Ali-Reza is just an Iranian Soulless Minion of Orthodoxy.
Ali-Reza Quotes in Darius the Great Is Not Okay
The Darius the Great Is Not Okay quotes below are all either spoken by Ali-Reza or refer to Ali-Reza. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Ayatollah’s Turban
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And then Sohrab said, “Ayatollah Darioush,” and all three of them laughed.
At me.
I thought I understood Sohrab.
I thought we were going to be friends.
How had I misjudged him so badly?
Maybe Dad was right.
Maybe I would always be a target.
Even for things I couldn’t help. Like being from America. Like having a foreskin.
Those things were normal back home, but not in Iran.
I would never fit in. Not anywhere.
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Ali-Reza Quotes in Darius the Great Is Not Okay
The Darius the Great Is Not Okay quotes below are all either spoken by Ali-Reza or refer to Ali-Reza. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
The Ayatollah’s Turban
Quotes
And then Sohrab said, “Ayatollah Darioush,” and all three of them laughed.
At me.
I thought I understood Sohrab.
I thought we were going to be friends.
How had I misjudged him so badly?
Maybe Dad was right.
Maybe I would always be a target.
Even for things I couldn’t help. Like being from America. Like having a foreskin.
Those things were normal back home, but not in Iran.
I would never fit in. Not anywhere.
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