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Three days at the beach is enough to warm you up but not enough to turn you into mush.
Putting a person back together isn’t easy, but if you’re smart about it you can reassemble yourself in a totally different, better way.
salt air.
siri, play august by taylor swift
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned that it’s totally possible to love someone from a safe distance.
My grandparents are the best, hands down. They’re straightforward and familiar and not at all afraid to tell you what’s up.
machine-gun fire of thoughts and opinions and then a big laugh that tells you none of it mattered at all.
It’s not the beach wedding I imagined as a kid or the Central Park wedding I imagined the day Jack proposed to me, but it’s easy, and I’m sure it will be beautiful.
why does this make me so sad :(
It’s like I went out into the world and grew up, and he’s still right here. Right where I left him.
But there’s no reason to walk into the museum of your childhood just for old times’ sake. It’s confusing to be faced with all the things you used to think were important once you’ve grown up. If I were my parents, I would have changed this room into a gym.
I wanted to wrap myself in that banner and enjoy a lifetime of predictable outcomes. No more surprises, no more broken promises. Just people doing what they say they’re going to do.
It’s a particular level of intimacy, reading a book with another person.
Gracie’s unfiltered joy should come in pill form.
It was a risk to kiss her, but maybe a bigger risk not to. It ached to want something this much.
“We need to slow down,” she said by the time they were lying on the damp leaves. “Do we?” He was not slowing down. “We have all summer.” I want forever, he thought.
could fill a book with the words I don’t say about the importance of protecting things that matter.
One of those guys must be the Sam in her song.
r u dumb???? YOU ARE SAM………WYATT WROTE IT ABOUT YOU
same time next summer.
“What did you think I was going to grow up and write songs about? I’ve loved you my whole life.”
“If I’d googled you and called, what would have happened?” “It doesn’t matter now, Sam.”
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“Exactly. That’s exactly what I want to do.” Jack reaches for my hand, and as dumb as that confession is, I feel heard. And if Jack thinks it makes sense, maybe it’s possible. “But you’re an HR consultant. It’s your whole résumé. So you’ve just got to make the best of that.”
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need to look away from the possibility that what we had was real, because it could undo me.
Another person is not going to turn you into anything but who you already are.
“You’re the cake that looks normal until people dig in and find out it’s spectacular. You’re the chocolate fucking cake, Sam, and you won’t even choose it.”
“You’re the most important person that’s ever been in my life, and you’re not even the most important person in your own.”
Falling in line has been my signature move my whole adult life.
“Sometimes you have to walk away from all the things you don’t want to make room for the future. Blank canvas.”
I did the right thing, I know it. But I’m exhausted. Breaking out of a life that’s not working is a lot of work. It might have been easier to have kept doing what I was doing for the next fifty years.
I can’t believe I’ve traveled so far in my hunt for a happy life, and my happy life is right here, in my treehouse.
“No thanks, we’re good,” he says, taking my hand. “I’ve always planned to marry Sam on the beach.”
