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“I don’t want to disappoint you, but us men, we’re not that different. There’s not that much variety.”
it was Emily: she wasn’t going to turn around and say sorry, she’d found a new Laurie. It just happened. We shared Spotify playlists. She’s who I confide in now.
What would success feel like to you? She could finally answer that: self-respect. It felt like not caring anymore.
“Emily? I’ve realized something. Ever since Dan and I split up, there was something I couldn’t make sense of. You said Dan and I were hit by lightning, in Bar CaVa, that it was fate, that it was a once-in-a-lifetime chance and it changed everything forever. I knew it was true, I could feel in my water that it was true, so I couldn’t reconcile it with Dan having gone. Well, I’ve figured it out. I did meet the love of my life that day. Only it wasn’t Dan. You are the love of my life. Are you still there?”
We don’t only divine character in how people handle wins. You see more in the disasters.”
