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.
I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.
I had never seen anyone concentrate like that on anything. It was like watching love.
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...
Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?
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?
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.
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?
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.
Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?
But it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you -Jen
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.
Newspaper at that very table, and was racing
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...
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...
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.
Did it every occur to you that if you weren't living in fear of other people's opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?