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41 " But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get. "
― Gayle Forman , Just One Year (Just One Day, #2)
42 " A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen "
43 " Days like these go on for years. It's the ones you want to last that slip away - one, two, three - in seconds. "
44 " Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder. "
45 " A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin. "
46 " I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver. "
47 " For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of double happiness and we were arguing over the meaning. She’d thought it meant the luck of the boy getting the job and the girl. But I’d disagreed. It was the couplet fitting together, the two halves finding each other. It was love. But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It’s not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will.Maybe for double happiness, you need both. "
48 " Sometimes it's easier to be someone else. "
49 " I’ve given up on Lulu before. In Utrecht. In Mexico. But that felt like surrendering. Like it was me I was really giving up on. This feels different, somehow. Like maybe Lulu brought me to this place, and for the first time in a long time, I’m on the cusp of something real. Maybe this is the point of it all. Maybe this is where the road is meant to end. I think of the postcards I left in her suitcase. I’d written sorry on one of them. Only now do I understand what I really should’ve written was thank you.“Thank you,” I say quietly to the empty house. I know she’ll never hear it, but somehow that seems besides the point. "
50 " Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying. "
51 " Do you do that a lot? Move on?""Maybe. But only because I travel a lot."She taps put a beat on the steering wheel, audible only to herseld. "Or maybe you travel a lot because it lets you move on.""Perhaps."........I look out the window. The jungle is everywhere. I look back at her. "Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from? "
52 " Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks. "
53 " So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?”“No. The wind just blew me here.”“What? Like a plastic bag?”“I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat. "
54 " Saba solía decir que hay una diferencia entre lo heroico y la valentía. El heroísmo era hacer algo peligroso sin pensar. La valentía era caminar hacia el peligro, sabiendo perfectamente los riesgos. "
55 " I’m not sure it’s possible to simultaneously love something and keep it safe. Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives. "
56 " To dream is the ultimate dare, is it not? "
57 " We both speak Dutch and English. But we never could speak the same language. "
58 " Two oceans between us. And still not enough. "
59 " Maybe this is the point of it all. Maybe this is where the road is meant to end. "
60 " Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance. "