Loved One Quotes

“Just because it’s common doesn’t mean it’s not remarkable.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“We could chatter for hours, and we could exchange one word and immediately crack up. It was like finding out someone else was fluent in a language you thought you had invented.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“There is something about a city that isn't yours. Perhaps better than a beach vacation is the trip to a new city, the luxury of walking leisurely through a busy metropolis, observing a hustle that does not require your participation. You walk past scaffolding around a building without any consideration of when the construction work will be completed, how it will affect your commute, if you will benefit from whatever new structure rises.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“This was the thing about friendships. Unlike in a romantic relationship, you could disappear for a few weeks, even months, without a check-in. You’d always pick up right where you left off. Knowing this, the problem was you could easily end up going too long without spending time in person. Since he’d moved, Gabe and I heard about each other’s lives, but we were no longer involved in them, no longer familiar with all the events and players or participating in the weekly ups and downs. Instead we had catch-up phone calls. They were a necessary evil: the conjugal visit of friendships, talking in the car on the way to or from somewhere, or while waiting in line, or during a lunch break, cramming every recent detail into fifteen minutes or less of conversation. It was a perpetual update exchange as opposed to experiencing life together.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“You may not feel it yet, but at some point, it will hit you. And then you’ll be back to normal, talking to someone, just like we are now, and it will hit you all over again. Grief comes in waves.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“Things were things until the thing meant something and then it was invaluable.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“I wasn't worried about being single forever. I was worried about feeling this lonely forever.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“We were standing in a memory. Then it was over. We laid our past on a pyre, and as it burned, I made an offering. Maybe we could be something different.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“I stood in front of it, dumbstruck. I felt that these colors in a square on the wall knew me, almost like the painting and I had met before. I recognize you, my bones said to the canvas. You too, it said back.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“The Coco Chanel theory of personality: before leaving the house, remove your most brazen quality.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“But it turned out I had organized my own religion, one that relied on what I now saw as the seemingly romantic, but ultimately cruel, philosophy that Everything Happens For A Reason. Without this private logic, I was vulnerable; it was a crisis of faith.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“There is something about a city that isn’t yours. Perhaps better than a beach vacation is the trip to a new city, the luxury of walking leisurely through a busy metropolis, observing a hustle that does not require your participation.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“There was a queasy unease to treading new waters, building the compass as you sailed, every choice a guess. Except it was worse now. Because it was expected at eighteen, or even twenty-five, but at thirty, it was embarrassing.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“There was a throbbing meaninglessness that could at any moment spread into an ache and pull me apart. Over time, I did think about it less, but when I did, this wide gulf would open again, and even if I didn’t fall in, just walking the perimeter of it was miserable.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“Grief was a large spectrum on a microscopic scale”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“I didn't say anything. Sometimes when someone is feeling awful about themselves, you have to let them get it all out and not intervene, otherwise it becomes a screaming match between you and that awful voice in their head. No one ever wins against that voice.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“Since he'd moved, Gabe and I heard about each other's lives, but we were no longer involved in them, no longer familiar with all the events and players or participating in the weekly ups and downs. Instead we had catch-up phone calls. They were a necessary evil: the conjugal visit of friendships, talking in the car on the way to or from somewhere, or while waiting in line, or during a lunch break, cramming every recent detail into fifteen minutes or less of conversation. It was a perpetual update exchange as opposed to experiencing life together.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“There is something about a city that isn't yours. Perhaps better than a beach vacation is the trip to a new city, the luxury of walking leisurely through a busy metropolis, observing a hustle that does not require your participation.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“There was a queasy unease to treading new waters, building the compass as you sailed, every choice a guess.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“Sometimes when someone is feeling awful about themselves”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“The more was the friendship. The more was knowing we would have each other even as the people we dated passed through our lives. We were lucky the way we were. In other words”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“It was like finding out someone else was fluent in a language you thought you had invented.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“It occurred to me how often I pounced on a silver-lining meaning when faced with coincidences”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“Our laughs overlapped together were greater than their parts and engendered more of this sound, increasing in volume and strength”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“Sometimes I pass something that catches my eye”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“There is something about a city that isn’t yours. Perhaps better than a beach vacation is the trip to a new city”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“I felt that these colors in a square on the wall knew me”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“I know that grief takes practice. And I'm patient with myself. Even though death happens all the time, no one could ever be a natural at this.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“There is something about a city that isn’t yours.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One

“She had a limitless well of disdain for her ex-husband, and plumbing its depths seemed to energize her.”
― Aisha Muharrar, Loved One