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In Five Years QUOTES

1 " But , sitting here at my desk, I realize something else. We've been on these parallel tracks, David and I. Moving constantly forward in space but never actually touching, for fear of throwing each other off course. Like if we were aligned in the same direction, we'd never have to compromise. But the thing about parallel tracks is you can be inches apart, or miles. And lately it feels like the width between David and me is extraordinary. WE just didn't notice because we were still looking at the same horizon. But it dawns on me that I want someone in my way. I want us to collide. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

2 " But all of that is an hour from now. Now, on the other side of midnight, we do not know yet what is coming. So be it. So let it be. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

3 " He shakes his head. "I love you, but I'm sick of being the person who fits in your life but not your... fuck it, your heart. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

4 " I wouldn't say I'm a romantic, exactly. but I believe in romance, which is to say, I believe in calling to inquire about a date instead of texting, & flowers after sex, & Frank Sinatra at an engagement. And New York City in December. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

5 " He shakes his head. "You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

6 " They say language comes better to people who are right-brained, but I'm not so sure. I think you need a certain looseness, a certain fluidity, to speak another language. To take all the words in your brain and turn them over, one by one, like stones - and find something else scrolled on the underside "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

7 " I look out on that view. The water, the bridge, the lights. Manhattan on the water, shimmering like a promise. I think about how much life the city holds, how much heartbreak, how much love. I think about everything I have lost there, this fading island before me. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

8 " You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

9 " I am constantly trying to learn the rules, only to realize that the people who win don't seem to follow any. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

10 " It feels impossible how much space there can be in this intimacy, how much privacy. And I think that maybe that is what love is. Not the absence of space but the acknowledgement of it, the thing that lives between the parts, the things that makes it possible not to be one, but to be different, to be two. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

11 " Happiness. The enemy of all suffering. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

12 " I think sacrifice is in direct opposition to manifestation. If you want your dreams you should look for abundance, not scarcity. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

13 " I used to think that the present determined the future. That if I worked hard, and long, I'd get the things I wanted. The job, the apartment, the life. That the future was simply a mound of clay waiting to be told by the present, what form to take. But that isn't true. It can't be. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

14 " You are not wrong for loving what you do. You are lucky. Life doesn't hand everyone a passion in their profession. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

15 " Love doesn't require a future. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

16 " It is not love, this feeling.
It is grief. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

17 " There is a path of land that exists Beyond the sea and the sky. It is behind the mountains, Past even the hills— Those of luscious green that Roll up into the heavens. I have been there, with you. It is not big, although not too small. Perhaps you could perch a house on its width, But we have never considered it. What would be the use? We already live there. When the night closes And the city stills, I am there, with you. Our mouths laughing, our heads vacant Of all but what is. And what is? I ask. This, you say. You and I, here. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

18 " If there’s a clock ticking toward anything, it should be your happiness. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

19 " The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he’d said. The future always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has to run to sea. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years

20 " I have been asked if I needed help so many timed that I have been allowed to forget the question, the significance of it. I see, now, the way the love in my life has woven into a tapestry that I've been blessed enough to get to ignore. "

― Rebecca Serle , In Five Years