Expiration Dates Quotes

“It’s hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another. You have to make a conscious effort to say, over and over again, “You.” Not everyone makes that choice. Not everyone can.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“No one’s time is promised. Not yours. Not Mom’s. Not mine. Not Jake’s. It’s just the way it is. We are all dying. Every day. And at some point it becomes a choice. Which one are you going to do today? Are you living or are you dying?”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“My life has been filled with magical moments, I was just so busy waiting I didn’t see them when they were here.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“But being surprised by life isn't losing, it's living. It's messy and uncomfortable and complicated and beautiful. It's life, all of it. The only way to get it wrong is to refuse to play.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“The thing no one ever wants to say about dating is this: It’s hard to be real, sure. It’s harder to let someone else be.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness. Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselves and we owe each other. But in what order?”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“But that’s love, isn’t it? The belief in something you cannot see or touch or even explain. Like the heart itself, we just know it’s there.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“To meet the right person, to be with someone I want to see in the morning and naked. To not be afraid to have a bad day around them. To be happy, I guess.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“Of course,” I say. A wink. A smile. I’m watching you, or Everything is going to be all right. Love is a net. It can catch you long after the person is no longer there.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learning to be whole.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“It's hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another. You have to make a conscious effort to say over and over again, 'You.' Not everyone makes that choice. Not everyone can.

(Daphne Bell)”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“It’s hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“We are all dying. Every day. And at some point it becomes a choice. Which one are you going to do today? Are you living or are you dying?”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“Life is a catch-22. That's why God invented female friendship.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“The truth is hard. It’s complicated. It does not always follow a simple structure. It is not always convenient. That’s why sometimes we do our best to leave it out of the story for as long as possible. We choose to let it linger in the corners, we don’t spotlight it. But eventually, it catches up to us. Of course it does.
You can run but you can’t hide.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both of you -- to safety.

(Daphne Bell)”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“The truth is hard. It's complicated. It does not always follow a simple structure. It is not always convenient. That's why sometimes we do our best to leave it out of the story for as long as possible. We choose to let it linger in the corners, we don't spotlight it. But eventually, it catches up to us. Of course it does.
You can run but you can't hide.

(Daphne Bell)”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“wonder if sex might express something else—some level of tenderness. If we might be able to judge not the strength of a person’s feelings but the measure of their care.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“read in a magazine one time that every woman should spend five minutes a day staring at her naked body. I’d rather hurl myself off a balcony.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“Love is a net...She would tell me all the time that the love we had mattered, that it could catch you, that it was catching you.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“But acknowledging a desire means acknowledging the what-if of the want. I wanted it and that meant I was terrified of never having it. Of never getting there.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“We live in an age of romance where you can pick from thousands of strangers on the internet. Pretty much everyone fears buyer’s remorse.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“I read in a magazine one time that every woman should spend five minutes a day staring at her naked body. I’d rather hurl myself off a balcony.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you— the both of you— to safety.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“[A]cknowledging a desire means acknowledging the what-if of that want. I wanted it, and that meant I was terrified—of never having it. Of never getting there.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness. Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselves and we owe each other. But in what order? As I look at Jake sitting across from me I feel the desire to protect him palpably - I feel it down deep in my bones. And then I consider something else, something that is hard to look at but impossible, now, to ignore. I wonder if I've been seeing that desire - honoring it, recognizing it - and calling it love. Protection and love are not the same thing. Love says, I will try and I will fail. Love says, Despite. Love says, And yet and yet and yet.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“There's a warmth to this relationship with Jake, a comfort that I've never really felt or known before. But sometimes I'm afraid it means I'm somehow fading - that all the bright and brilliant aspects of myself are diminishing in this cocoon. That I will not have the sparkle I once had - that all my edges are being worn down in this intimacy.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“I don't think the opposite of casual is serious, actually."
"What is it then?"
Jake looks at me. His hazel eyes appear almost gold underneath the light of the heat lamp - tiny specs of sunlight. "Depth," he says. "The opposite of casual is deep.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“Here's the truth: I do want love. In some ways, I've been looking for forever. Real love, the kind that makes you want to grow old together, makes you not just unafraid of all that time with one person but electrified by it.
I assumed at some point, maybe the papers would stop. But I wasn't looking forward to that day, at least not exactly. There was something in me that wanted to keep moving. If you never stop long enough to sink into something, then it can't destroy you. It's easier to climb out of a pool that a well, is the thing.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“It’s hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another. You have to make a conscious effort to say, over and over”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates