Someone You Love Is Gone Quotes

“I close my eyes and listen as they circle the living room, making polite offerings. The house is full and yet quiet; it’s as if my ear is pressed against a wall, listening for some great truth. As if we’re underwater, our lives submerged. I imagine the furniture dunking and bobbing, floating and sinking in the sea as we try to arrange it on the ocean floor, one hopeless piece at a time.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“And what is God other than an answer or a reason in the dark?”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“The world is wherever you find yourself," he says as if reciting. "And here, it is. Now.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“The past is always changed by the present. There is no true account, not even the number of years that have gone by. It’s what the years hide, reveal, and keep secret, what they tuck into days and minutes, what they fold and slip into dreams and nightmares – that is where the real living is.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“Within a month we’re married, and everything that was, all those other parts of my life, drift away. I become an island. At thirty-two weeks, I lose the baby. It’s stillborn, dead and yet tethered to me. I realize then that in life there is no letting go.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“Sometimes forgetting is the only thing that gets you through this life.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“I pause as the clocks from Mother’s collection sound the hour. From every room come staggered chimes, cuckoos calling out. A moment later, the sound of ticking. The house a metronome. We are empty, as if our insides have been carved out. That is what death does, I think. It makes us into ticking clocks, in need of winding, hollow and mechanized.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“I wrap myself in Mother’s cream pashmina and look in the mirror. She stares back. Resemblances run deep in our family. Ancestors lay claim and features are passed on like antiquities, every new life an ode to another.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“Raj insisted she wasn’t leaving forever, that she was just choosing a university farther from home, but I knew there was no coming back. Every time she came home she was less as she was and more of who she was becoming.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“Amrita walked by his side and he by hers, two halves of a whole.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“Most days I move through the world unable to comprehend the living. Hating their surefootedness, their superficiality. Now, it seems, there is just one single truth: our lives are insignificant. There is no great purpose, there is just this moment.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“He catches her fleeting glance, then leans in and brushes his lips against hers. The moment is brief, but inside that moment is an entire world governed by the sound of her own pulse, of his collapsing breath on her neck.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“Studying beauty and meaning isn't practical, it's essential. How else can one make their way in the world?”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone