Instructions for Dancing

by Nicola Yoon

I decide I like people who are generous with their laughter.

“It’s okay you’re feeling cynical these days. It’s okay if you don’t trust the world so much right now. You have good reasons.”

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.

If you get very, very lucky in this life, then you get to love another person so hard and so completely that when you lose them, it rips you apart. I think the pain is the proof of a life well lived and loved.”