Be careful what you give up.
But Eve - ow whoever comes after Eve - cant save him from eventually doing the hard work that comes after that. The work he has never wanted to do, that she spent the better part of her life trying to...
When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.
It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find.
Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else - Jacob
Fate suggests no agency. Synchronization is all about agency. It involves all systems running in a state where different parts of the system are almost, if not precisely, ready.
Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.
Only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can’t, to resist deciding anything else.
Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?
We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's lef...
I had never seen anyone concentrate like that on anything. It was like watching love.
Even now, after Nick had caused me pain, the truth was I didn't want to cause him any. Wasn't that love, after all?
Why people travel far from home-far from where they started. There was, of course, the obvious reason:escape. Escape from the monotony of every day. SO many of us chasing what we wished our everyday e...
Newspaper at that very table, and was racing
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. —Groucho Marx
The part where you need to choose among the choices that are there, and not the ones that aren't there anymore. At least not how you need them to be. You're still stuck on some imaginary idea you have...
It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way--as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it.
If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn’t it ultimately just matter that you got the ending you wanted?
I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.
I just think people forget what it feels like to really be in love, you know? Like when that’s the only thing in the world that matters. I just don’t want to decide it’s not that important.