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Waiting at the airport was a prime people-watching opportunity though, so instead of complaining, I took advantage.
Today is a lucky day I guess. Or maybe it’s you. Good luck charm.”
“Can your wife say the same thing?”
Give me an opportunity to make it up to you.” She rolled her eyes. “Any time a man has said those words to me, it has always been followed by some bullshit, and preceded by some bullshit I shouldn’t have accepted in the first place.” “That’s not this,” I insisted. “And I’m not them.”
I have a good life – a life I love. But don’t let the fact that it looks good outside fool you into thinking it always looks good in here or here.” She pointed to her head, and then her heart.
“We all have flaws, and we all have mess to deal with. But it doesn’t make us worthless, or worth any less.”
I survived something meant to destroy me – I can’t squander this second chance by living a life that is beneath my standing.
I don’t accept the little crumbs that people try to throw, right? I don’t do “frenemies”, I don’t accept people who never have a positive thing to say, I don’t accept liars, I don’t share a partner with anybody,
I don’t accept anybody’s ba...
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When you come to me, you come correct. I demand it. And you should do the same. How different could our world be if we – lovingly – challenged each other to do, ...
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the thing I had to come to terms with was that it wasn’t about how they saw me. It was about how I saw me.
Anybody who has the power to alter how you feel about yourself will absolutely use it. What better hands to wield such a power than your own?”
It’s gonna hurt to demand those girls be better friends or get dropped. It might not feel good to go to the mall, or go to the movies alone,” Noah told her, standing up from her seat to climb down the few steps from the stage and head to where Mia was standing. “But you know what you’ll never regret? Not compromising yourself.”
Don’t be so rigid that you leave no room for simple human error. That was all Cameron said to me, after overhearing that conversation with Nick. She didn’t leave me room to debate if she was on my side or his, just dropped that nugget and walked off, destroying my world. There’s no shame in changing your mind when something is antithetical to your happiness.
And something I’ve realized is that actual conversations, the exchange of ideas and opinions… we don’t do a ton of it. Not anymore. We communicate in soundbites, everything reduced to how much you feel like typing, or what can fit in a thirty-second video.
“The sensuality of everyday things. Maybe it’s about finding… I don’t know, some new appreciation of things we’re so used to, we overlook them.”
Experience is only the best teacher if you’re using it to learn what behaviors not to accept, honing your preferences – not using it as an excuse to let the good ones pass you by.”
We can sit here and play “what if” all night, right? But it’s not going to change the fact that there are risks in every relationship.
“Cancel that ride. You’re staying here.”
Let the other person know where you stand, so they can decide for themselves if they want to stand with you.
Protecting your heart was smart, and necessary, especially in the early stages of dating, when it could be hard to discern someone’s intentions.
We tend to spend a lot of time on how to be good to other people, forgiving them, moving past their mistakes, all of that. But we don’t often give ourselves that same grace, and I want to address it.”
A beautiful stranger, who was adding unimaginable to value to my life – vibrancy to my story – and whose mere presence had caught me off guard.
