After I Do

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

If you’re looking for a change of scenery, choose beautiful scenery.

But sometimes you need to go get coffee more than you actually need coffee.

“Isn’t it nice,” he says, “once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is?”

Why do we undervalue things when we have them? Why is it only on the verge of losing something that we see how much we need it?

I’m not alone. There are millions of me.

When did life get so fucking funny?

And it’s easier than you think to go from being so happy you could cry to so devastated you could laugh.

Some people love that about life, that it’s unpredictable and unruly. I hate it. I hate that it doesn’t have the common decency to wait for a profound moment to take something from you.

Look at the things we are capable of in the name of the people we love.