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Teddy didn’t believe in guilty pleasures as a concept. She figured if you liked something, whether it was the Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme or the music of boy bands from the late nineties (okay, so those were both examples from Teddy’s life), why feel guilty about it? The world was a tough, cruel place. Why not find joy wherever you could, grab that joy by the metaphorical joy reins, and hold on tight?
Try everything you can. Even—or maybe especially—the things that scare you. Keep your mind and your heart open and be on the lookout, and I know you’ll find your thing.”
“You know how many times I’ve started my life completely over? This is the fun part, sweetie. This is the part where you get to decide what’s next, so it’s up to you: what are you going to do now?”
how this works. I don’t know what Richard did to make you believe you had to earn his affection, but that’s not the way real relationships work, whether they’re romantic or friendship.”
“There’s no time limit on dreams,”
Sometimes it helps to think back to what made us happy when we were young, before we met people who told us our dreams were silly or unrealistic. What lit up your heart when you were a kid? Maybe that’s your thing.
have a belief that, as long as you keep trying and pushing and working toward your goal, something will happen, even if it doesn’t happen the exact way you thought it would.
When it’s really love, you don’t have to lose yourself. Falling in love should make you more yourself.”
That’s just what life is. Even if you’re happy with the path you went down, part of you always wonders what was on that other road you passed a few miles back. That doesn’t mean it’s some grand tragedy. But it’s a loss all the same.”
Don’t run away when it gets hard, because let me tell you—if you’re with someone for their whole life, things are gonna get hard. They’re gonna get hard in ways you can’t even imagine. The only chance you have of making it work is by opening up your mouth and saying what you’re feeling.”
Maybe she wouldn’t ever find one big thing that lit her up; maybe it was enough to be constantly discovering a million little things that made life worth living.
Loving someone and being loved back, getting the chance to wake up every morning and uncover new passions, deciding on her own what her life would be . . . It was more than enough. It was everything.
