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“Poor happy endings. They're so aggressively misunderstood. We act like "and they lived happily ever after" is trying to con us into thinking that nothing bad ever happened to anyone ever again.

But that's never the way I read those words. I read them as "and they built a life together, and looked after each other, and made the absolute best of their lives."

That's possible right?

That's not ridiculous.

Tragedy is a given. There is no version of human life that doesn't involve reams of it.

The question is what we do in the face of it all.”
― Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

“You can't force a person to show up, but you can learn a lesson when they don't.

Trust people's actions, not their words.
Don't love anyone who isn't ready to love you back.
Let go of the people who don't hold on to you.
Don't wait on anyone who's in no rush to get to you.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“We can be all those things - good, bad, easy, and needy, okay or not on an endless cycle - and trust that the other will stay. Our circumstances are messy, but so is life. It doesn't mean that we can't love each other through it. We already are. - "The Ex Vows”
― Jessica Joyce

“I don't know how I let myself get so cynical," Charlie went on. "I've been wondering about that a lot. All I can figure is this: it hurts to be disappointed. It hurts so much, we'd rather never get our hopes up. And it's humiliating, too - right? How foolish are you to hope for the best? How pathetic is it to try to win after you've already lost? How naive must you be if you don't know that humanity is dark and vicious and totally irredeemable? But the argument Emma's been making this whole time - and I'm paraphrasing here - is this: If those are the only stories we tell about ourselves, then those are the only stories we have."

"....Humanity at its worst is an easy story to tell - but it's not the only story. Because the more we can imagine our better selves, the more we can become them...”
― Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers