Maybe in Another Life

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

But dating again, being together, that would be moving backward, wouldn’t it?

“But I can tell you, if he does, it’s because it wasn’t meant to be.”

We can’t say what we would do in other circumstances. We can only know what we will do with the ones we face.

That’s what you do when you want something. You don’t look for reasons why it won’t work. You look for reasons why it will.

If you love someone, if you think you could make them happy for the rest of your life together, then nothing should stop you. You should be prepared to take them as they are and deal with the consequences. Relationships aren’t neat and clean. They’re ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them. That’s what I think. I think if you truly love someone, you accept the circumstances; you don’t hide behind them.”

What I’m getting at here is that I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices that led me somewhere else, led me to someone else.” He looks at Gabby. “And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn’t end up with you.”