Sorry for the Inconvenience Quotes

“Part of him, I think, was also incredibly lonely, and lonely people know what to say to other lonely people.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“That’s the beauty of siblings, I think. You don’t need words. After growing up in the same dysfunctional household for years, you develop your own special telepathy, your own secret language: of facial expressions only the two of you can read, of inside jokes only the two of you understand, of memories only the two of you share.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“forgotten. I got the sense she was the kind of person who would rescue any sad creature that happened to cross her path, whether it be rabid squirrels, alligators, or me.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“But it’s hard to recognize love and all its forms when you’ve never seen it before. I was so sure that there was only one kind of “real love,” and that real love would be some big dramatic, storybook moment, a sudden flare of passion that would make itself known.
What if it wasn’t that at all? What if love was a patient thing that simply stood at your side, offering you a hand? What if it was all the best of friendships—a partnership, a promise to face the unfeeling world and all its follies together? Or simply the quiet, intimate details of a person, like how their lips part when they sleep, how they take their coffee, their preferences in tea?”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“Perhaps this is why we forgive people who don’t deserve it: nostalgia is a hell of a drug. It blurred all the bad, brightened the scant good, and told you pretty lies.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“But despite the suspicions in the back of my mind, I was still too naive to understand that someone saying they’ve changed—so confidently, always so sure—often means that they are certain they can convince you of their growth. And perhaps they can, for a time. But real, meaningful change needs no announcement. Real change speaks for itself.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“He spoke gently, every word laced with care. With him, I realized, arguments didn’t have to be conflict, didn’t have to be battles to be won. They could be about connecting and reconnecting.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“But perhaps that was the problem with finding someone whose company you enjoy; the world without them feels dulled. You become greedy for their presence, even when you’re too afraid to ask for it.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“I’ve always hated that phrase. Half the time, whenever someone says It’s not personal, it feels like a get-out-of-jail-free card. It’s a way to refuse responsibility for hurting someone.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“But I hated being in a world that demanded women protect themselves instead of punishing the men who would harm them in the first place.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“I wondered if people used religion as an excuse to ignore the humanity of others, and instead reduce them to their sins.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“Except cruelty can also be stealthy and insidious. Like dismissing one's feelings, over and over again—until one day you start to forget how to feel anything.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“so much of what we refer to as "nonfiction" relies on our perception of the world and the events unfolding around us. Nonfiction is based on real things that actually happened, yes, but nonfiction is never exactly the full truth it is our brains seeing ourselves in the mirror and wondering why our head is so big.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“Rarely,”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“Love was refuge. Love was comfort. Love was ease.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“But I was terrified about having picked up trauma from Mom, from internalizing an unhealthy way to care for my own child.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“Sometimes I wondered if people used religion as an excuse to ignore the humanity of others, and instead reduce them to their sins.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“But perhaps that was the problem with finding someone whose company you enjoy; the world without them feels dulled.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“But real, meaningful change needs no announcement. Real change speaks for itself.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“without”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

“I realized none would be good enough for my parents. Hell, on most days, I wasn’t good enough for them.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir