Diana Awad > Quotes

“The pieces of family life loosened and fell away until one day, years later, we wondered how treasured family rituals faded without a proper send-off.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“Losing Ali was like losing an arm or a leg. You could live without it”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“And then”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“I was learning that maybe friendships, even the longest and deepest ones, had a season, and ours had come to an end. I would be cordial when I saw them, but my inner circle had shifted.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“I was an idiot virgin bride who believed every lie that jackass ever fed me. I was a faithful wife. For twenty-three years, I never even looked at another man while he—he—”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“I’d always viewed myself as a strong”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“I wondered if all parents became less themselves in order to transform into the role models they think their children need.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“Ya’aburnee. I hope you bury me.” It was an Arabic saying, an expression of hope that the person you loved would outlive you because you couldn’t bear to live without them.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“You’re culturally Arab American and Muslim,” I countered. “There are nuances to Palestinian culture and ethnicity that most non-Arabs can’t understand. It’s easier to marry someone who is like you.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“Having never dated before”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“I really thought you loved my brother,” she said. “That you’d defend him and protect his memory until your dying day.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“heard that a lot—how strong I’d been since Ali died. As if I had a choice. What was the alternative?”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“They are all in love when they get married”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“I knew what I had when I had it.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“Grief was like a computer program that was always running in the background”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“I read once that pilots become disoriented”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“Ya’aburnee. I hope you bury me.” It was an Arabic saying”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“You’re still young.” Julia adjusted her hijab. “If you marry Nasser”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“This has to mean that she never left. That lying”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“I had no interest in keeping alive things that represented death.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“You have no idea what it’s like. We’re brought up with the threat of total ruin”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“A sweetness that was the past and the future all at once.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“would always be their dad. Everything he’d instilled in them was still there and would forever be part of who they were. Ali would always light the way for them.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“workday? Maybe there had been some sort of professional meeting”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“Later”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“charged Ali”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“Was it?” she asked. “Mom reminded him that he was his parents’ only son. It would have killed them to have their son accused of murder. It could have ruined Ali’s future.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“I need to know that I can be OK on my own. I went from Baba’s house to my husband’s house. In a way”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew

“It appears he drove straight into the tree and didn’t brake or swerve to avoid crashing.”
― Diana Awad, As Far as She Knew