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1 " Sometimes we get chances - opportunities - that we're meant to take. And if you take the leap, things will open up and change. And if you take a step back instead? Okay. That's your decision. But you'll never know what you were supposed to find out. "
― Kerry Winfrey , Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It
2 " Love is pretty much always confusing, and it doesn't ever show up at a convenient time. "
3 " After tomorrow, I'll see a different face staring back at me from the mirror - at first, a swollen face, but then one with a smaller jaw and a straighter smile. This is what I've wanted for years, but standing on the edge of all this change, I feel like I want to pause time and remember exactly what if feels like to be here now - in the before. "
4 " That's the thing about Ohio - winter drags on so long that once mid-March hits, if it's above forty degrees everyone's outside wearing shorts and t-shirts and dining on patios. "
― Kerry Winfrey , Not Like the Movies (Waiting for Tom Hanks, #2)
5 " It reminded me of the importance of creativity, originality, and beauty, and also made me think that the world needs more romances about puppeteers. "
― Kerry Winfrey , Very Sincerely Yours
6 " You're right, I don't give a single bedazzled shit what anyone else thinks of the way I look, or act, or think, but that doesn't mean I'm not aware of it. You aren't the only one who lives with self-doubt, Jolie. "
7 " I just don't want you to live your whole life being afraid of change when you're already a star. "
8 " Everyone thinks of romantic comedies as being these sappy, unrealistic stories where love conquers all and everyone ends up happy at the end. But that's not what her movies were at all. Like, in Sleepless in Seattle, you can't really get any sadder that Tom Hanks missing his dead wife. And in You've Got Mail, Meg Ryan misses her mom and loses her store. None of that gets resolved by the end. It's not like Tom's wife comes back to life, and Meg Ryan still loses the business her mom built. "
― Kerry Winfrey , Waiting for Tom Hanks (Waiting for Tom Hanks, #1)
9 " The things that suck still suck, but they're allowed to be happy. And maybe it means so much more that they're happy, knowing that they still carry that sadness with them. "
10 " Truly, is there anything more romantic than Tom Hanks on a boat? "
11 " It doesn’t matter how someone in a romantic comedy affords their absurdly nice house, or whether or not their profession makes sense, or if technically they’re sort of stalking someone they heard on a call-in radio show. What matters is that they have hope. Sure, they find love, but it’s not even about love. It’s the hope that you deserve happiness, and that you won’t be sad forever, and that things will get better. It’s hope that life doesn’t always have to be a miserable slog, that you can find someone to love who understands you and accepts you just as you are. "
12 " Sometimes it helps to think back to what made us happy when we were young, before we met people who told us our dreams were silly or unrealistic. What lit up your heart when you were a kid? Maybe that’s your thing. "
13 " But what if I stop giving everyone everything, and then they don’t give me anything back to fill the void? "
14 " He used three exclamation points? That kind of irresponsible punctuation must mean something's up. "
― Kerry Winfrey , Love and Other Alien Experiences
15 " Maybe my person and I won’t fit together like two halves of the same whole, but neither did Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail or Sleepless in Seattle. They didn’t erase each other’s pain; they just made it bearable. "
16 " The air is slightly chilly, but there's a promise in the air. It might be rainy and cold and, okay, it wouldn't be unheard of if it started snowing in April, but warm weather is coming. Things are growing, and I can feel it. "
17 " Shush. Let the man emote. We need to encourage straight men to share their feelings; that would solve, like, ninety percent of the world’s problems. "
18 " I guess if we're talking about my anxiety, the even truthier truth is it started way before that. "
19 " No one in the history of ever has called me chill. I came out of the womb and the doctor was like, ‘Whoa, get this newborn into a baby yoga class, she’s stressed. "
20 " This isn’t a sob story, sweetie. That’s just what life is. Even if you’re happy with the path you went down, part of you always wonders what was on that other road you passed a few miles back. That doesn’t mean it’s some grand tragedy. But it’s a loss all the same. "
