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got a surprise upgrade to a VIP room, for example, because my dad’s surgery was the ten-thousandth one they’d performed.
girl can't you realize this is Charlie's doing??
“There is absolutely no way to predict the infinite random forces in the world any of our choices will expose us to.
TRULY
How did you hold on?” “I just got up every day, and went to bed every night, and tried to be a good person in between.”
All we can try to do in this life.
“Whatever story you tell yourself about your life, that’s the one that’ll be true.”
YOU HAVE TO LIVE YOUR TRUTH!
“Here’s another thing I accidentally figured out: happiness is always better with a little bit of sadness.”
So maay analogiies for this but if one doesn't know the opposite, they don't understand the sprectrum.
Grocery shopping had been more fun when he was making me watch him juggle oranges.
Show don't tell!!! Truly could have been a scene, at least once!! Think this is why the main 'love story' doesn't feel as such.
If you wait for other people to light you up, then I guess you’re at the mercy of darkness.
Initiative!! Self confidence!! What my generation is missing
THE MEETING IN LA with Donna Cole went very well.
There is a whole gap in the writing here
Logan steeled himself to break a confidence. “To do nice things for you.” “Like what? What kind of nice things?” “You know,” Logan said. “Like upgrading your dad’s room.”
Insert a MASSIVE eyeroll, like cmon girl. Emma's naivety really bothers me.
Hold on—was that why he’d been coughing so much? Not allergies—but lung cancer?
girl I saw this from a mile away
But in the interest of journalistic integrity, I’ll just go ahead and say yes.
Lmao
If those are the only stories we tell about ourselves, then those are the only stories we have.”
It's all about the narrative we have of ourselves
Humanity at its worst is an easy story to tell—but it’s not the only story. Because the more we can imagine our better selves, the more we can become them.”
Make media that matters
In the way that beginnings and endings are always kind of the same thing.
Two sides to everything
She took on a lot of caregiving, marrying my dad. But she told me once that it’s worth it.
I think this is beautiful note for those with chronic health conditions and their loved one who doubles their love to act as a caregiver.
“Choose a good, imperfect person who leaves the cap off the toothpaste, and puts the toilet paper roll on upside down, and loads the dishwasher like a ferret on steroids—and then appreciate the hell out of that person. Train yourself to see their best, most delightful, most charming qualities. Focus on everything they’re getting right. Be grateful—all the time—and laugh the rest off.”
“There it is. The whole trick to life. Be aggressively, loudly, unapologetically grateful.”
It’s all about the details you notice. And the joys you savor. And the hope you refuse to give up on.
It’s all about writing the very best story of your life.
Al one can try to do. And do it truthfully. Whole-heartedly.
Not just how you live it—but how you choo...
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Because we are in control of our narrative. It's one's truth that matters.
