The Rom-Commers

by Katherine Center

You can’t cancel one emotion without canceling them all. You can’t hate love—not without hating every other feeling, too.

“There is absolutely no way to predict the infinite random forces in the world any of our choices will expose us to. How paralyzing would it be to even try?”

“Whatever story you tell yourself about your life, that’s the one that’ll be true.”

If you wait for other people to light you up, then I guess you’re at the mercy of darkness.

“There it is. The whole trick to life. Be aggressively, loudly, unapologetically grateful.”