Funny Story

by Emily Henry

Daphne Vincent, the librarian that Peter plucked out of the trash, nearly married, then dumped the morning after his bachelor party for his “platonic” “best” “friend,” Petra Comer.

that old familiar ability to use those negative emotions as fuel to Get. Shit. Done.

You can’t force a person to show up, but you can learn a lesson when they don’t.

“There’s steadiness and dependability, and those are great. But settling? Just deciding you already know everything you like and dislike on the entire planet, everything you’re good at, every friend you’re going to make, and every food you’re ever going to eat?

He was willing to be good to me, but he wasn’t willing to be any better.

I think a lot of my friends thought I was a selfish idiot, giving up a pretty good thing just for the hope of a really good thing.

When you choose the wrong people to trust and let down the right ones.

Trust people’s actions, not their words. Don’t love anyone who isn’t ready to love you back. Let go of the people who don’t hold on to you. Don’t wait on people who don’t hurry for you.

But I’m working on being excited instead of nervous about the unknown.