Kerry Winfrey > Quotes

“Everyone thinks of romantic comedies as being these sappy, unrealistic stories where love conquers all and everyone ends up happy at the end. But that's not what her movies were at all. Like, in Sleepless in Seattle, you can't really get any sadder that Tom Hanks missing his dead wife. And in You've Got Mail, Meg Ryan misses her mom and loses her store. None of that gets resolved by the end. It's not like Tom's wife comes back to life, and Meg Ryan still loses the business her mom built.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“The things that suck still suck, but they're allowed to be happy. And maybe it means so much more that they're happy, knowing that they still carry that sadness with them.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“Maybe my person and I won’t fit together like two halves of the same whole, but neither did Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail or Sleepless in Seattle. They didn’t erase each other’s pain; they just made it bearable.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“But what if I stop giving everyone everything, and then they don’t give me anything back to fill the void?”
― Kerry Winfrey, Not Like the Movies

“It doesn’t matter how someone in a romantic comedy affords their absurdly nice house, or whether or not their profession makes sense, or if technically they’re sort of stalking someone they heard on a call-in radio show. What matters is that they have hope. Sure, they find love, but it’s not even about love. It’s the hope that you deserve happiness, and that you won’t be sad forever, and that things will get better. It’s hope that life doesn’t always have to be a miserable slog, that you can find someone to love who understands you and accepts you just as you are.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“Sometimes it helps to think back to what made us happy when we were young, before we met people who told us our dreams were silly or unrealistic. What lit up your heart when you were a kid? Maybe that’s your thing.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Very Sincerely Yours

“He used three exclamation points? That kind of irresponsible punctuation must mean something's up.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Love and Other Alien Experiences

“Sometimes we get chances - opportunities - that we're meant to take. And if you take the leap, things will open up and change. And if you take a step back instead? Okay. That's your decision. But you'll never know what you were supposed to find out.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It

“Shush. Let the man emote. We need to encourage straight men to share their feelings; that would solve, like, ninety percent of the world’s problems.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Very Sincerely Yours

“I just don't want you to live your whole life being afraid of change when you're already a star.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It

“The air is slightly chilly, but there's a promise in the air. It might be rainy and cold and, okay, it wouldn't be unheard of if it started snowing in April, but warm weather is coming. Things are growing, and I can feel it.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Not Like the Movies

“I try not to judge people who face situations I’ve never faced”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“Sure, it's absolutely ridiculous to turn down a real-life guy because of a movie star, like saving myself for one of the Jonas Brothers in junior high, but it's how I feel.”
― Kerry Winfrey , Waiting for Tom Hanks

“I guess if we're talking about my anxiety, the even truthier truth is it started way before that.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Love and Other Alien Experiences

“After tomorrow, I'll see a different face staring back at me from the mirror - at first, a swollen face, but then one with a smaller jaw and a straighter smile. This is what I've wanted for years, but standing on the edge of all this change, I feel like I want to pause time and remember exactly what if feels like to be here now - in the before.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It

“Love is pretty much always confusing, and it doesn't ever show up at a convenient time.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It

“That’s the tone of voice you use when you’re about to give unsolicited advice.” “That’s the only kind I can give you. You never solicit my advice, even though it’s impeccable.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Very Sincerely Yours

“you either distract yourself from your pain with over-activity, or you make yourself a home inside your pain cocoon.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“This isn’t a sob story, sweetie. That’s just what life is. Even if you’re happy with the path you went down, part of you always wonders what was on that other road you passed a few miles back. That doesn’t mean it’s some grand tragedy. But it’s a loss all the same.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Very Sincerely Yours

“No one in the history of ever has called me chill. I came out of the womb and the doctor was like, ‘Whoa, get this newborn into a baby yoga class, she’s stressed.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Not Like the Movies

“I know your work matters. No one's suggesting that it doesn't. But the people who love you matter, too. And if you keep blowing everyone off to give one hundred percent of yourself to work, someday you're gonna wake up and no one will be there anymore.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Very Sincerely Yours

“When will I find a self-help book that’s like, “Bitch, take a nap”?”
― Kerry Winfrey, Faking Christmas

“I'm reminded that romance isn't the only great love story of our lives. Sometimes the love we have with our lifelong friends, the ones we can depend on through changes and fights and joys and heartbreaks - sometimes those are the greatest love stories we have.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Not Like the Movies

“What could a kid know about the idea of feeling like you wasted your life, your potential? About the idea of feeling like you're stuck? About the idea of feeling like you made all the wrong decisions and now its too late, much too late, to change them?”
― Kerry Winfrey, Faking Christmas

“Nick exhales, short and frustrated. "I wouldn't be done with you in one night, Chloe. That's the entire problem.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Not Like the Movies

“This seemed too good to be true, that she was suddenly getting exactly what she wanted. There had to be some catch, some trapdoor waiting for her to step on it. But also . . . maybe she was being ridiculous. Joy was in front of her, and maybe she shouldn’t question it or analyze it to death or waste her time worrying about when the other shoe might drop. Maybe she should just appreciate what she had while she had it.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Very Sincerely Yours

“Life is a risk, and you can’t protect yourself from heartbreak by refusing to go after what you want.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“Truly, is there anything more romantic than Tom Hanks on a boat?”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“It’s ridiculous that someone decided twinkle lights are Christmas only things when desperately need them to get through the bleakness of the post holiday winter... Twinkle lights should be everywhere all the time.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“That’s why it doesn’t bother me when people are rude or snappy or downright insulting; I tell myself, silently, that they’re having the worst day of their life, and I let myself be perhaps the only happy thing they’ll see all day.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Not Like the Movies