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61 " You know how every once in a while you look back on your life and you wonder how so much time has passed? You wonder how each moment bled into the next and created the days, months, and years that now all feel like seconds?That’s how I feel.Right now.In this moment.It feels like our entire past together spans eons and the time I’ve spent without him is an insignificant little flash. "
― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves
62 " 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. It doesn’t mean that I want to let go of the memories of you or the love I have for you. But it does mean that I want to let go of the sadness. "
63 " I hope you know how beautiful and freeing it was to love you when you were here.You were the love of my life.Maybe it’s selfish to want more; maybe it’s greedy to want another love like that.But I can’t help it.I do. "
64 " You can tell I am the one taking the picture. You can tell, just from the smile on his face, how much he loves me. "
65 " I’ve always loved you. I never stopped loving you. I’m incapable of it. I’m incapable of loving anyone but you. "
66 " It breaks my heart to be loved like this, to be loved so purely that I’m capable of breaking a heart. "
67 " But then I realize that staying still doesn’t actually pause time, it’s still passing, life is still happening. You have to keep moving. "
68 " I don’t think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly. "
69 " Our friendship had been a long-distance one since we went off to college. But I never met another woman who meant to me what she did. No one else could make me laugh like she could. So my oldest friend remained my best friend, despite however many miles kept us apart, and it was for that reason that I made her my maid of honor. "
70 " Thank you,” he said as he gathered his bags and looked at me. “I love you more than anyone has ever loved anyone in the history of the world. Do you know that? Do you know that Antony didn’t love Cleopatra as much as I love you? Do you know that Romeo didn’t love Juliet as much as I love you?”I laughed. “I love you, too,” I said. “More than Liz Taylor loved Richard Burton. "
71 " Then you’ll be free. To see if you love him the way you love me, to see what’s left between you. You should be free to do that. And you can’t do that if I’m with you or if I’m pleading for you to stay. Which I don’t trust myself not to do. If I’m with you, I will try to get you to choose me. I know that I will. And I don’t want to do that. So . . . go. Figure out what you want. I’m telling you it’s OK. "
72 " Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else. "
73 " It occurs to me that my memory of him was a poor substitute for the real thing. "
74 " 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. "
75 " Do you ever get over loss? Or do you just find a box within yourself, big enough to hold it? Do you just stuff it in there, push it down, and snap the lid on it? Do you just work, every day, to keep the box shut? "
76 " Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be. We were meant to have been.” I "
77 " We’re both playing the same game with each other. We want to understand, we want to make the other person feel understood, but the truth is we’re on opposite sides of the street right now, looking over at each other and imagining what life must be like. "
78 " Happy moments are the worst, that’s when the ache is strongest. "
79 " Because ever since I heard he was back, I haven’t been happy for you. Or even really that happy for him. I’ve been heartsick. For me. "
80 " I wish I didn’t say it so often. I wish that my love for Sam wasn’t so casual and pervasive—so that I could save that phrase for moments like this. But that’s not very realistic, is it? When you love someone, it seeps out of everything you do, it bleeds into everything you say, it becomes so ever-present, that eventually it becomes ordinary to hear, no matter how extraordinary it is to feel. "