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One True Loves QUOTES

One True Loves QUOTES

1 " Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you're used to being full of joy. But it's not so bad when you're used to feeling full of pain. Hollow feels okay. Empty feels like a beginning. Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

2 " You start to understand that grief is chronic. That it's more about remission and relapse than it is about a cure. What that means to you is that you can't simply wait for it to be over. You have to move through it, like swimming in an undertow. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

3 " I once thought that grief was chronic, that all you could do was appreciate the good days and take them along with the bad. And then I started to think that maybe the good days aren't just days; maybe the good days can be good weeks, good months, good years. Now I wonder if grief isn't something like a shell. You wear it for a long time and then one day you realize you've outgrown it. So you put it down. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

4 " When you lose someone you love, it's hard to imagine that you'll ever feel better. That, one day, you'll manage to be in a good mood simply because the weather is nice or the barista at the coffee shop on the corner remembered your order. But it does happen. If you're patient and you work at it. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

5 " I think that perhaps everyone has a moment that splits their life in two. When you look back on your own time line there's a sharp spike somewhere along the way, some event that changed you, changed your life more than the others. A moment that creates a before and an after. Maybe it's when you meet your love or you figure out your life's passion or you have your first child. Maybe it's something wonderful. Maybe it's something tragic. But when it happens it tints your memories, shifts your perspective on your own life and it suddenly seems as if everyone you've been through falls under the label of pre or post. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

6 " True love doesn’t always last,” I say. “It doesn’t always have to be for a lifetime.”
“Right. And that doesn’t mean it’s not true love,” Jesse says.
It was real.
And now it’s over.
And that’s OK.
“I am who I am because I loved you once,” he says.
“I am who I am because I loved you once, too,” I say.
And then we say good-bye. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

7 " As I sat next to him on the piano bench, I said, “What if I’d never walked into the music store . . .”
Sam smiled gently and looked at me as he played the keys on the piano ever so softly. And then he said, “But you did.”
I decided that was my answer to questions of fate. I could go around asking myself what if x hadn’t happened, and the answer would always be, “But it did. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

8 " There is no one to open the store. You offer to do it. They tell you that you don’t have to. They say they can ask one of the sales clerks. You tell them you’ve got it under control.

When they say thank you, you realize that you have missed being relied upon. You remember the pride of being useful. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

9 " Romantic love is a beautiful thing under the right circumstances. But those circumstances are so specific and rare "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

10 " Look at your hair!” she says, moving her hand toward my short hair but not actually touching it. “It’s so different.”

I am stronger than when I knew them. I stand straighter. I am more patient. I hold fewer grudges. I am more thankful for what I have, less resentful for what I don’t. I am less restless. I read a lot more books. I play the piano. I’m engaged.

But, of course, she can’t see all that. The only change she can see is my short, blond hair. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

11 " Once I had put enough distance between myself and where I grew up, I started to see its beauty. I started to see it the way outsiders do - maybe because I had become an outsider. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

12 " I don't think you're trying to figure out if you love Sam more or Jesse more. I think you're trying to figure out if you want to be the person you are with Jesse or you want to be the person you are wth Sam. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

13 " You wake up one morning feeling dry and completely empty, so empty that if someone knocked on you, you’d sound hollow.
Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you’re used to being full of joy. But it’s not so bad when you’re used to feeling full of pain.

Hollow feels okay.

Empty feels like a beginning.

Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

14 " I just wasn’t the same person at thirty that I was at twenty,” he said. “And neither was she.”
“I don’t think anybody is,” I said.
“I feel a bit jaded by it now, to be honest,” he said. “Like, will I be the same person at forty? Or . . .”
“Will we outgrow this, too?” I said, completing his thought. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

15 " The memory of you hurt so much at first. The more I thought about your smile, your smell, the more it hurt. But I liked punishing myself. I liked the pain because the pain was you. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

16 " There are, of course, many songs dedicated to the glory of a backside, and if my thirties have taught me anything so far, it's that I'm ready to try to be myself with no apologies. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

17 " Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else. It's about seeing yourself through someone's eyes and realizing there is plenty to like about yourself, plenty of reasons someone might hang on your every word. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

18 " Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

19 " Good things don’t wait until you’re ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you’re almost there. And I figured when that happens, you can let them pass by like a bus not meant for you. Or you can get ready. So I got ready. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves

20 " I had predicated my life on the idea that I wanted to see everywhere extraordinary, but I’d come to realize that extraordinary is everywhere. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves