Rebecca Serle Books & Quotes

“I was young, I thought I needed the money, but then I realized that my carefree friend was actually living the good way, even though love and heartbreak are often a package deal.”

Love Heartbreak

Book:In Five Years

Source: 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.”

Passion Profression

Book:In Five Years

Source: In Five Years

“In order to sort & file to my heart's content, I had to read into them a bit, & I fell in love with the organization, the way language - the pure truth in the words - was nonnegotiable. It was like poetry, but poetry with outcome, poetry with concrete meaning - with actionable power.”

Language Words Power Of Words

Book:In Five Years

Source: In Five Years

“I loved the way his brain worked. How he was always trying to play devil's advocate--to see and appreciate sides that were not his own. And I loved how stubborn he was--steadfast. His confidence sometimes felt like a bulldozer, but other times it felt like a foundation--like I was tethered to something that could not possibly bend or snap or break. His personality made me feel safe, being in his orbit was like being inside the sun--the rays couldn't harm me, all I felt was the warmth of proximity.”

Love Romance Relationship Feeling Boyfriend In Love

Book:Expiration Dates

Source: Expiration Dates

“The problem with love is that it's not enough. But it's also nearly impossible to let go of once you've found it.”

Love Impossible Relationship

Book:Expiration Dates

Source: Expiration Dates

“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.”

Blessed Help Family Help

Book:In Five Years

Source: In Five Years

“Whether this is the beginning of goodbye for us, too. I do not know. I have no idea what happens now.”

Future Letting Go Longing Moving On

Book:In Five Years

Source: In Five Years

“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.”

Truth Life Lessons

Book:Expiration Dates

Source: Expiration Dates

“Love is a net. It can catch you long after the person is no longer there.”

Love Grief Healing

Book:Expiration Dates

Source: Expiration Dates

“My mother, you see, is the great love of my life, She is the great love of my life, and I have lost her.”

Mother Grief

Book:One Italian Summer

Source: One Italian Summer

“Maybe she knew. Maybe she knew there wasn't time to waste, that she couldn't go through the motions, steps, build. That the linear trajectory would bring her only to the middle.”

Life Time Loss Grief

Book:In Five Years

Source: In Five Years

“Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.”

Relationships Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Book:When You Were Mine

Source: When You Were Mine

“The entire town is built around the cove of the sea. It looks like an amphitheater, enjoying the performance of the ocean.”

Italy

Book:One Italian Summer

Source: One Italian Summer

“When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine...”

Summer Wine Italy

Book:One Italian Summer

Source: One Italian Summer

“Long may we gather”

Italy

Book:One Italian Summer

Source: One Italian Summer

“I think I'm really good at travel and less good at what happens when you stand still," he says. "I like to be a visitor. In places, in hotels, sometimes in other people's lives.”

Travel Detachment Aloneness Alone But Not Lonely

Book:One Italian Summer

Source: One Italian Summer

“How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?”

Love Death Contemporary Mourn Shakespeare

Book:When You Were Mine

Source: When You Were Mine

“We are powerful because we affect each other's stories, all of us. We are here to impact each other, to knock into each other, to throw each other off balance, sometimes even off track. I've always hated the phrase 'There's a reason for everything.' But here, now, I think even if there's not a reason for everything, there may be a reason for everyone.”

Life Reason Existence Why

Book:Expiration Dates

Source: Expiration Dates

“Yes, I wanted epic love. Weak-in-the-knees, movie-kiss-in-the-rain epic love. What I never realized, not up until this very moment, is that I got it--everything I'd been asking for. My life has been filled with magical moments, I was just so busy waiting I didn't see them when they were here.”

Love Regret Goals Live In The Moment Pov

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“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)”

Illness Mothers

Book:Expiration Dates

Source: Expiration Dates

“Carol was an incredible mother. She was also flawed and complicated and a woman, just like me. One summer does not make that untrue. One summer is one summer. It can be a watercolor of beach days. It can change your life.”

Summer Mothers

Book:One Italian Summer

Source: One Italian Summer

“They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers.”

Love Death Contemporary Shakespeare

Book:When You Were Mine

Source: 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.”

Death Romeo And Juliet

Book:When You Were Mine

Source: When You Were Mine

“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 each other. But in what order? (Daphne Bell)”

Happiness Relationships Reponsibility

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Source: Expiration Dates

“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.”

Love Relationships

Book:In Five Years

Source: In Five Years

“Running does all the things for me it does for everyone else - clears my head, gives me time to think, makes my body feel good and loose. But it also had the added benefit of taking me places. When I first moved to the city I could only afford to live in Hell's Kitchen, but I wanted to be everywhere. So I ran.”

Running Hell S Kitchen

Book:In Five Years

Source: 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, & flowers after sex, & Frank Sinatra at an engagement. And New York City in December.”

Love Multitude Multidimensional

Book:In Five Years

Source: In Five Years

“Mi smo poput sazviježđa koja prolaze jedno pokraj drugog, koja vide svjetlost onoga drugoga, ali u daljini. Čini se nemogućim koliko prostora može postojati u ovakvoj intimnosti, koliko mnogo privatnosti. I mislim da je to upravo ljubav. Ne odsutnost prostora, nego spoznaja da on postoji, to nešto što živi između dijelova, to nešto što čini mogućim ne biti jedno, nego biti drugačije, biti dvoje.”

Life Quotes Friendship Life Philosophy Quotes Love Novel In Five Years Rebecca Serle

Book:In Five Years

Source: 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. (Daphne Bell)”

Friendship Effort Aging

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Rebecca Serle Books

In Five Years

Expiration Dates

One Italian Summer

When You Were Mine

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