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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“There is something about a city that isn’t yours.”
― 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

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