Rebecca Serle > Quotes

“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“I am constantly trying to learn the rules, only to realize that the people who win don't seem to follow any.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“History, memory is by definition fiction. Once an event is no longer present, but remembered, it is narrative. And we can choose the narratives we tell—about our own lives, our own stories, our own relationships. We can choose the chapters we give meaning.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“It feels impossible how much space there can be in this intimacy, how much privacy. And I think that maybe that is what love is. Not the absence of space but the acknowledgement of it, the thing that lives between the parts, the things that makes it possible not to be one, but to be different, to be two.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“There are a million things in this world that can end you, that can in one second obliterate the life you work so hard to keep alive. Our lives are structured around not dying. Eating, sleeping, looking both ways before you cross the street. It's all, all of it, to keep us safe from the thing that we know is going to get us anyway. It doesn't even make sense, if you think about it. It's the world's biggest joke. Our entire lives are set up around not dying, knowing all the while that it's the one thing we can't avoid.”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“I think sacrifice is in direct opposition to manifestation. If you want your dreams you should look for abundance, not scarcity.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Happiness. The enemy of all suffering.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“This is life. We have to take it as it comes, because even though some things are really shitty, there's a lot of really great stuff too.”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“i hope you walk through the world knowing your value. I hope you find a passion--something you love, something that lights you up inside. I hope you find the peace and confidence it takes to trust where your path leads. Remember it is only yours. Others can wave and cheer, but no one can give you directions. They have not been where you are going. I hope you will understand someday that just because you become a mother doesn't mean you stop becoming a woman. And above all else, I hope you know that even if you can't see me, I am always with you.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“I used to think that the present determined the future. That if I worked hard, and long, I'd get the things I wanted. The job, the apartment, the life. That the future was simply a mound of clay waiting to be told by the present, what form to take. But that isn't true. It can't be.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“[...] you're willing to look past things and to give people second chances. But the thing is, Rose, some people don't deserve them.”
― Rebecca Serle

“You are not wrong for loving what you do. You are lucky. Life doesn't hand everyone a passion in their profession.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“What got you here won't get you there.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers.”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“It is not love, this feeling.
It is grief.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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

“If there’s a clock ticking toward anything, it should be your happiness.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“There is more to life than just continuing to do what we know. What got you here won’t get you there.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“But , sitting here at my desk, I realize something else. We've been on these parallel tracks, David and I. Moving constantly forward in space but never actually touching, for fear of throwing each other off course. Like if we were aligned in the same direction, we'd never have to compromise. But the thing about parallel tracks is you can be inches apart, or miles. And lately it feels like the width between David and me is extraordinary. WE just didn't notice because we were still looking at the same horizon. But it dawns on me that I want someone in my way. I want us to collide.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Love doesn't require a future.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Those are the things that define us. The way we love the people around us, and the choices we make to show it. That's what makes us who we are.”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“Every day the world is born again. Every day the sun rises. It is a miracle, I think. A simple, everyday miracle. Life.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“History is an asset, not a detriment. It's nice to be with someone who knows you, who knows your history. It will get even more important the longer you live. Learning how to find your way back can be harder than starting over. But damn, if you can, it's worth it.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“Look, you think I like history because I’m fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you’re wrong. I like it because it’s the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They’re anyone’s guess.”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“There is a path of land that exists Beyond the sea and the sky. It is behind the mountains, Past even the hills— Those of luscious green that Roll up into the heavens. I have been there, with you. It is not big, although not too small. Perhaps you could perch a house on its width, But we have never considered it. What would be the use? We already live there. When the night closes And the city stills, I am there, with you. Our mouths laughing, our heads vacant Of all but what is. And what is? I ask. This, you say. You and I, here.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years