One True Loves

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

You are happier to have known him than you are sad to have lost him.

Good things don’t wait until you’re ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you’re almost there.

Now I wonder if grief isn’t something like a shell. You wear it for a long time and then one day you realize you’ve outgrown it. So you put it down. It doesn’t mean that I want to let go of the memories of you or the love I have for you. But it does mean that I want to let go of the sadness.

even if I wasn’t ready for the truth, that didn’t make it untrue.

that’s sort of the point of love between two people—you can’t re-create it. Every time you love, everyone you love, the love is different. You’re different in it.

“I don’t think you’re trying to figure out if you love Sam more or Jesse more. I think you’re trying to figure out if you want to be the person you are with Jesse or you want to be the person you are with Sam.”

“Just goes to show things aren’t always the way we remember them.”

I have changed over time. That’s what people do. People aren’t stagnant. We evolve in reaction to our pleasures and our pains.

It’s a scary thought, isn’t it? That every single person on this planet could lose their one true love and live to love again? It means the one you love could love again if they lost you.

Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be.

I am who I am because I loved you once,”