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After I Do QUOTES

After I Do QUOTES

1 " David clinks his wineglass to mine and smiles at me. You know what? Without the parsley there to distract you, it's quite a smile. It's bright white and streamlined. His face is handsome in a conventional way, all cheekbones and angles. He's not so attractive that you'd stop traffic to look at him. But neither am I. He's just a humbly good-looking guy. Like, if he were the new doctor in a small town in the Midwest, all the local women would schedule an appointment. He's that kind of attractive. His glasses sit comfortably on his nose, as if they have earned the right to be there. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

2 " This isn’t what thirty is supposed to look like. It’s not what thirty is supposed to feel like. By thirty, you’re supposed to have things figured out, aren’t you? You’re not supposed to be questioning everything you’ve built your life on. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

3 " Quando descesse, eu sabia que pareceria triunfante aos olhos daqueles que cruzassem nosso caminho. Isso mostra bem como fracasso e sucesso podem ter aparências bem semelhantes. Às vezes, só a própria pessoa conhece a verdade. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

4 " Às vezes as pessoas fazem as coisas porque estão irritadas ou chateadas ou porque estão a fim de brigar. E essas coisas podem magoar. Porém, o que magoa mais é quando alguém faz as coisas por apatia. Por não se importar mais com você como na época da faculdade. Por não se importar mais com você como na época em que se casaram. Por não se importar mais com você. E, como ainda existe uma parte minúscula dentro de mim que ainda se importa, que fica enfurecida com o fato de ele não se importar mais, faço uma coisa que nunca fiz antes. Que jamais pensei que algum dia fosse fazer. Faço uma coisa que, mesmo enquanto estou fazendo, não acredito que esteja acontecendo de verdade. Eu pego o vaso. O vaso de vidro. E atiro na porta atrás dele. Com flores e tudo. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

5 " Isn’t it nice … once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

6 " Just because you can live without someone doesn’t mean you want to. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

7 " I know it will be OK because everything is OK in the end. And if it’s not OK, it’s not the end. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

8 " Ryan and I are two people who used to be in love.
What a beautiful thing to have been.
What a sad thing to be. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

9 " The sun will rise no matter what pain we encounter. No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

10 " Maybe it doesn’t matter if you need someone during the everyday moments of your life. Maybe what matters is that when you need someone, they are the one you need. Maybe needing someone isn’t about not being able to do it without them. Maybe needing someone is about it being easier if they are by your side. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

11 " We are tied to each other. We can hate and love, miss and loathe each other all within the same breath. We can never want to see each other again while never wanting to let go. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

12 " Why do we do this? Why do we undervalue things when we have them? Why is it only on the verge of losing something that we see how much we need it? "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

13 " Sometimes people do things because they are furious or because they are upset or because they are out for blood. And those things can hurt. But what hurts the most is when someone does something out of apathy. They don't care about you the way they said they did back in college. They don't care about you the way they promised to when you got married. They don't care about you at all. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

14 " The sun rises the next day after mothers lose their babies, after men lose their wives, after countries lose wars. The sun will rise no matter what pain we encounter. No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise. So you can’t go around assessing love by whether or not the sun rises. The sun doesn’t care about love. It just cares about rising. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

15 " Make no mistake: I do love you. Just because I don’t feel the love in my heart doesn’t mean I don’t know it’s there. I know it’s there. I’m leaving because I’m going to find it. I promise you that. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

16 " But sometimes you need to go get coffee more than you actually need coffee. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

17 " There is no failing or winning or losing … This is life, Lauren. This is love and marriage. If you stay married for a number of years and you have a happy time together and then you decide you don’t want to be married anymore and you choose to go be happy with somebody else or doing something else, that’s not a failure. That’s just life. That’s just how love is. How is that a failure? "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

18 " Your love life should bring you love. If it doesn't, no matter how hard you try, if you are honest and fair and good, and you decide it's over and you need to go find love somewhere else, then...what more can the world ask of you? "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

19 " My heart is truly broken. And I know that even if it mends, it will look different, feel different, beat differently. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do

20 " Change, at least in my life, is more often than not a slow and steady stream. It’s not an avalanche. It’s more of a snowball effect. I probably shouldn’t pontificate about my life using winter metaphors. I’ve only seen real snow three times. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , After I Do