These Impossible Things Quotes

“when loud people go quiet, they are either desperately sad or doing something they shouldn’t be doing,”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“They know you have to turn a blind eye when a woman is in love because it’s already too late. They do her the great service of looking in other directions and together they gently take tiny red flags and fold them away, placing them somewhere out of reach, where they’ll be easily forgotten.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“It’s funny, the things you do when the women in your life are suddenly absent.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“A woman has a way of screaming with her whole body that only other women can hear.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“They never teach you how to leave. Women are taught to stay. To love unconditionally. To only play suitcases for husbands but never for themselves.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“but partly because you cannot stand in the eye of the storm and talk in whispers.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“That was the day she learned that the way a heart breaks can change the course of a life.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“You can’t stuff so much sadness into a body and think it can be contained. Like water running to the sea, it will always find its level.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“sitting in somebody’s silence”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“Every time she saw him laughing with her girlfriends it felt like falling love all over again, or maybe just falling deeper in love. Love feels more solid when there are other people to witness it.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“Love came under the guise of anger and rough voices, which didn't make it less loving, it just held a different shape.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“She marvels at the way you could have an entire conversation with another human without speaking the same language.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“even in the smallest of everyday tasks, she is connected to tribes of women who have all kneaded dough and silently folded love into their families.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“Which is exactly why heartbreak is such a selfish thing. it makes you self- centered even if you weren't previously. Gives you license to throw caution to the wind and not in the good, reckless way by skydiving or asking to be kissed.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“Why did men always assume that just because women didn’t talk to one another they weren’t friends?”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“And anyway, how do you hold on to who you are without your family around to remind you?”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“Her recklessness had finally gotten her into a situation she couldn’t undo and the consequences of her actions had settled into a dull ache at the bottom of her spine.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things