How We Met Quotes

“Telling my mother I wanted to marry a white English boy was a shock for her and maybe it even felt like a betrayal. Perhaps if I had been more trusting with her growing up, if she hadn’t opened my post, if I had learned not to keep secrets, if I had had more privacy, if I had been more understanding, if we had both been less angry, if I was more like my cousins in Pakistan who were so well behaved and never spoke back, if the pressure to be perfect was not so intense, then perhaps the more difficult stages of life, the more difficult conversations we’ve had, might have been easier for us both to navigate.”
― Huma Qureshi, How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

“When one of my brothers learned about Richard, he sent me a number of angry emails in which he said: I just don’t see this happening. I cannot approve. He’ll simply not fit in with our family. I cannot even imagine having a conversation with him at the dining table. To date, Richard has sat around the dining table and listened to my family’s toilet hygiene habits for almost a decade. Honestly, I think we’re good.”
― Huma Qureshi, How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures