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141 " You want to talk about the truth? The truth is you gave up on me. "
― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves
142 " 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.” 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. "
143 " Adults love to tell teenagers that “one day” and “sooner or later” plenty of things are going to happen. They love to say that things happen “before you know it,” and they really love to impart how fast time “flies by.”I would learn later that almost everything my parents told me in this regard turned out to be true. College really did “fly by.” I did change my mind about Keanu Reeves “sooner or later.” I was on the other side of thirty “before I knew it.” And, just as my father said that afternoon, “one day” I was going to need my sister very, very much. "
144 " I had predicted my life on the idea that I wanted to see everywhere extraordinary but I'd come to realize that the extraordinary is everywhere. "
145 " Jesse could come back. We have to be watching. "
146 " 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. "
147 " 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 "
148 " I loved my life in California, where it never snowed and the sun was always shining. Now, my favorite day of the year is when daylight savings begins. It’s usually when the air starts to thaw and the only precipitation you can be threatened with is a little rain. You’re tired in the morning because you’ve lost an hour of sleep. But by seven o’clock at night, the sun is still out. And it’s warmer than it was yesterday at that time. It feels like the world is opening up, like the worst is over, and flowers are coming. They don’t have that in Los Angeles. The flowers never leave. "
149 " We learned how to do this together, explored ourselves with each other. We loved and desired each other when we were bad at it, and we grew good at it together, in tandem. "
150 " I have changed over time. That’s what people do. People aren’t stagnant. We evolve in reaction to our pleasures and our pains. "
151 " My parents have given me an incredible gift : they gave me this store , and they set up a future for me , but they never told me theirs was the only way to do it. "
152 " When I first started managing people, I had a hard time setting boundaries and expectations. I wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the people here to feel like they were part of a family—because that is what this store has always been to me. Family. "
153 " But business doesn’t work like that. And I don’t need my employees to like me. I need them to respect me and do their jobs well. "
154 " Falling out of love with someone you still like feels exactly like lying in a warm bed and hearing the alarm clock. No matter how good you feel right now, you know it’s time to go. "
155 " I’m mad at myself for a lot of things.So much so that I barely have time to consider what anyone else thinks of me. "
156 " you have the unique ability to love with your whole heart even after its been broken. "
157 " But he’s wrong, isn’t he? Everything isn’t always fine. Terrible things happen in this world. Awful things. You have to do your best to prevent them. "
158 " It’s almost terrifying, how much it defies logic and reason. What else do we know about the world that isn’t true? "
159 " I don't think I understood half of that sentence.""It wasn't the best one I've ever said. "
160 " And I can’t even begin to reconcile what is happening right in front of me to my real life. "