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“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.” (In Five Years Quotes)
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“Hang in there. I know the road isn’t easy, but stay the course.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“Here is the thing no one tells you about cancer: they ease you into it. After the initial shock, after the diagnosis and the terror, they put you on the slow conveyor belt. They start you off nice and easy. You want some lemon water with that chemo? You got it. Radiation? No problem, everyone does it, it’s practically weed. We’ll serve you those chemicals with a smile. You’ll love them, you’ll see.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“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
“I go to the window, right by the bed. I look out on that view. The water, the bridge, the lights. Manhattan on the water, shimmering like a promise. I think about how much life the city holds, how much heartbreak, how much love.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“I have been asked if I needed help so many timed that I have been allowed to forget the question, the significance of it. I see, now, the way the love in my life has woven into a tapestry that I’ve been blessed enough to get to ignore.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“I love the order of deal making, the clarity of language – how there is little room for interpretation and none for error. I love the black-and-white terms. Apocalyptic scenarios, disagreements, and details that threaten to topple it all. It seems impossible we’ll ever get both parties on the same page, but somehow we do. Somehow, contracts get agreed upon and signed. Somehow, deals get done. And when it finally happens, it’s exhilarating. Better than any day in court. It’s written. Binding Anyone can bend a judge’s or jury’s will with bravado, but to do it on paper – in black and white – that takes a particular kind of artistry. It’s truth in poetry.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“I make her life smooth and solid. She makes mine bright and dazzling. This seems fair. A good trade.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“I need the morning. There’s something about being the first one awake that feels precious, rare. I feel accomplished before I’ve even had my first cup of coffee. The whole day is better.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“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
“I think that maybe that is what love is. Not the absence of space but the acknowledgment of it, the thing that lives between the parts, the thing that makes it possible not to be one, but to be different, to be two.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“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
“I wish you understood that you could have love beyond your wildest dreams. Stuff movies are made of. You’re meant for that, too.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“I wouldn’t say I’m a romantic, exactly. But I believe in romance, which is to say, I believe in calling to inquire about a date instead of texting, and flowers after sex, and Frank Sinatra at an engagement. And New York City in December.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“I’m sick of being the person who fits in your life but not your … fuck it, your heart.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“If there’s a clock ticking toward anything, it should be your happiness.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“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 strange the social normalcies we hold strong to, even in the midst of extraordinary circumstances. The rules we are unwilling to break.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“Listen to me. You’re going to be fine. People do this all the time. They defy the odds. Every damn day.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“New York kind of makes you feel like it’s the only place in existence.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“No one who has lost a sibling at twelve can say with a straight face: everything happens for a reason.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“That is the thing about relationships: it’s not necessary to say everything.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he’d said. The future always finds you. Standstill and it will find you. The way the land just has to run to sea.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“The wind is low and languid, and the city is buzzy with the happy, contented quality of routine.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“There are a few ways to get ahead at a corporate law firm, and being the managing partner’s favorite is definitely one of them.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“They say language comes better to people who are right-brained, but I’m not so sure. I think you need a certain looseness, a certain fluidity, to speak another language. To take all the words in your brain and turn them over, one by one, like stones – and find something else scrolled on the underside”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“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
“This experience does not fit in your life, you have not taken any steps to have it, and yet here it is.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“This is us. Spend seven hundred dollars on dinner; come home to eat eight-dollar fried rice. I never want that to change.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“This is what I want. This is what I’ve always wanted. To be somewhere that stops at nothing. To be surrounded by the pace and rhythm of greatness.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“This is what marriage is, I know. Tiffs and comfortability, miscommunications and long stretches of silence. Years and years of support and care and imperfection.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“When I go to speak, I realize the entire apartment is filled with water and I’m choking on everything I cannot say.”
Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
“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
“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
