We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.
Aleksandar HemonRead
I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote expresses the complexity of love and marriage, emphasizing a deep emotional disconnect despite being together.
In this quote, Aleksandar Hemon reflects on the nature of love and marriage, suggesting that sometimes relationships are formed out of necessity rather than true understanding. It highlights the feelings of isolation and unfulfilled emotional needs that can exist even within a marriage, where individuals may not truly know or connect with each other at a deeper level.
Themes
LoveMarriageRelationshipsUnderstandingConnection
In practice
Example use cases
In a heartfelt speech at a wedding, one could say this quote to emphasize the importance of understanding in love.
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All quotes →I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
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I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
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Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
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All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
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I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.
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