Your Perfect Year

by Charlotte Lucas

That unequivocal feeling of being in love. Of warmth and security, of butterflies in the stomach, of an excess of joy and high spirits, laughter and craziness. And of happiness. Yes, happiness.

At the ends of their lives, they would regret not the things they’d done, but the things they hadn’t done.

You know that worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair—you expend a lot of energy but you never get anywhere.”

“It is. It’s very simple, in fact. I’ll tell you one truth: if life’s taught me anything, it’s that you should only do what excites you. Everything else is a waste of time. No one should act against their heart and their own convictions.”

‘There’s only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.’”

Sometimes things that seem so horrific that we can’t face them are nevertheless true.