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Josh, I feel God in this Duane Reade tonight.
“No one should marry the person who makes them happy,” Josh continues. “Marry the person you want by your side at your absolute lowest point.”
“Why are these parties so upscale and expensive if the point is to raise money?”
An adult wearing mittens. This is who he’s losing his goddamn mind over?
But this feels urgent—like they wasted the last hour by not kissing on the train, on the walk, waiting for the elevator.
“I’ve been bleeding from my existential wound this entire time.”
“Not like my roommate.” Lifting his head back up, he looks her in the eye. “Like the person I’m in love with.”
Mona qual sseu problema
“You warned me, you know. You said we’d hurt each other. And I was so concerned with making you feel safe, it just didn’t occur to me that…” He sniffles, maybe. “You were right.”
Ari tries and fails to picture Josh in any other location. He feels so rooted to the city, like he and Manhattan are in a co-dependent relationship.
“If you do happen to find your person, it’s an act of courage to tell them that. To say, ‘please love me back.’ To let someone else hold your heart in their hands, knowing it could—actually, it probably will—end badly.
“I feel like I wasn’t ready for that.” “That could be the pull quote for our entire relationship.”
Romcoms aren’t simply humorous stories about two people falling in love. They’re all, in essence, about people who become better versions of themselves in the course of falling in love. Two people, staring at each other from across the self-help section of an independent bookstore? Now that’s romance.
