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181 " 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
182 " They say that when you remember something, you are really remembering the last time you remembered it. "
183 " I didn’t like sleeping in my own bed anymore without him. I always held his hand at the movies. I waited all day to see him again just so I could kiss the soft spot by his eye, where his wrinkles were settling in. "
184 " Instead of writing that letter telling him that I needed to let him go and find a new life, I could have spent my days waiting for him to return from a place I thought he could never come back from. I could have dreamt of the impossible.And my dream would be coming true right now.But I gave up on that dream and went out and found a new one. "
185 " It’s rare that you love the person who loves you, that you love only the person who loves only you. Otherwise, somebody’s heartbroken. "
186 " Talvez todo mundo tenha vivido um momento que serve como um divisor de águas na vida. Observando nossa linha do tempo, deve existir um marco no meio do caminho, algum evento que nos transformou, mudou nossa ida de forma mais perceptível que os demais "
187 " Good things don’t wait until you’re ready. "
188 " I could make myself fit for him. He could make himself fit for me. But that’s not true love. "
189 " 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 "
190 " I remind myself that “indefinitely” doesn’t mean forever. "
191 " 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. Toward "
192 " I’m the one that got stuck with the big butt. "
193 " But the problem isn’t who you love or if you love both, I don’t think. I think the problem is that you aren’t sure who you are. You’re a different person now than you were before you lost Jesse. It changed you, fundamentally. "
194 " It’s one thing to break a heart. It’s an entirely different thing to break someone’s pride. "
195 " 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.” What if Jesse hadn’t gotten on that helicopter? But he did. I decided to no longer wonder what would have happened if things had worked out differently. And instead, I would focus on what was in front of me. I would focus on reality instead of asking myself questions about fictions. I "
196 " I love you,” he says. “I love you so much. I love waking up with you on Sunday mornings when we don’t have any plans. And I love coming home to you at night, seeing you reading a book, bundled up in a sweater and huge socks even though you have the heat up to eighty-eight degrees. I want that for the rest of my life. I want you to be my wife. That’s what I want.” I "
197 " I wanted to talk more, to spend more time with him, to hear more about him. I wanted more. "
198 " You can't capture love in a bottle. You can't hold on to it with both hands and force it to stay with you. "
199 " We loved each other and we lost each other. And now, even though we still love each other, the pieces don’t fit like they used to.” I could make myself fit for him. He could make himself fit for me. But that’s not true love. "
200 " I just . . . it’s sometimes hard not to associate moving forward with forgetting the past,” I said. "