“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
“One of the happiest moments ever is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.”
“We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we’ll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot.”
“It’s in the waiting
that I go quietly mad,
silently insane.”
“Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
“Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every single thing possible. Be selfish with your time, and all the aspects of you. Tinker with shit, travel, explore, love a lot, love a little, and never touch the ground.”
“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
“But I like you.” He cleared his throat. “I like you first and second and third.”
“There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.”
“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”
“Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.”
“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”
