Instructions for Dancing

by Nicola Yoon

That love stories are like fairy tales: you’re not meant to believe in them forever.

They told me to pay attention to the world but also to live my life. To be joyous and fearless.

Given enough time, all love stories turn into heartbreak stories.

Happiness is tricky. Sometimes you have to fight for it. Sometimes, though—the best times—it sneaks up behind you, wraps an arm around your waist and pulls you close.

Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”

The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t.