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“Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“True love doesn’t always last,” I say. “It doesn’t always have to be for a lifetime”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“What else could you want in a person other than kindness and humor? I'm not sure anything else really matters to me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“We loved each other and we lost each other. And now, even though we still love each other, the pieces don’t fit like they used to.”

I could make myself fit for him.

He could make himself fit for me.

But that’s not true love.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I love you,” he says. “I love you so much. I love waking up with you on Sunday mornings when we don’t have any plans. And I love coming home to you at night, seeing you reading a book, bundled up in a sweater and huge socks even though you have the heat up to eighty-eight degrees. I want that for the rest of my life. I want you to be my wife. That’s what I want.”

I want to tell him that I want that, too. Ever since I met him I’ve wanted that, too. But now everything is different, everything has changed. And I’m not sure what I want at all.

“But I don’t want you to share those things with me because you have to, because you feel it’s right to honor a promise we made months ago. I want us to share all of that together because it’s what makes you happy, because you wake up every day glad that you’re with me, because you have the freedom to choose the life you want, and you choose our life together. That’s what I want. If I don’t give you the chance to leave right now, then I don’t know,” he says, shrugging. “I just don’t think I’ll ever feel comfortable again.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I think, maybe, this is what true love means.

Maybe true love is warming someone up from the cold, or tenderly brushing a hair away, because you care about them with every bone in your body even though you know what’s between you won’t last.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“You can’t be loyal to two people.
You can’t yearn for two dreams.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I think you and I have something that could last for a very long time, Emma. Maybe I even knew that back in high school, maybe that’s why I was as infatuated with you as I was. But I feel—I have always felt—more myself with you than anyone I’ve ever met. And for the first time, I’m starting to see what it would mean to grow with someone, as opposed to merely growing beside someone, the way I did with Aisha. I’m not worried about our future, the way I thought I’d be when I fell in love again. I’m OK just being with you and seeing where it goes. I just want you to know that if what we have lasts, and one day we talk about getting married or having kids, I want you to know I’ll never try to replace Jesse. I’ll never ask you to stop loving him. You can love your past with him. My love for you now isn’t threatened by that. I just . . . I want you to know that I’ll never ask you to choose. I’ll never ask you to tell me I’m your one true love. I know, for someone like you, that isn’t fair. And I’ll never ask it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“Just . . . just do me a favor.”

“Anything.”

“Don’t stay with me if you want to be with him,” he says. “Don’t do that to me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“You can’t capture love in a bottle. You can’t hold on to it with both hands and force it to stay with you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I am who I am because I loved you once,” he says.
“I am who I am because I loved you once, too,” I say.
And then we say good-bye.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“It breaks my heart to be loved like this, to be loved so purely that I’m capable of breaking a heart.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I don’t think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be. We were meant to have been.” I”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I feel awful for giving up on Jesse. For thinking he was dead. For moving on. For falling in love with someone else. I’m actually furious at myself for that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I thought of you every day,” he says. “I have missed you for all these years.”

I start to say it back and then realize I’m not sure if it’s true. I thought of him always—until one day I thought of him less. And then I thought of him often but . . . that’s not really the same thing.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“for the first time, I’m starting to see what it would mean to grow with someone, as opposed to merely growing beside someone,”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I don’t think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly. Maybe, if you’re the kind of person who’s willing to give all of yourself, the kind of person who is willing to love with all of your heart even though you’ve experienced just how much it can hurt . . . maybe you get lots of true loves, then. Maybe that’s the gift you get for being brave. I am a woman who dares to love again. I finally love that about myself.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves