Rebecca Serle Quotes & Sayings
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I'm trying hard to remain composed. His face slackens, smooths out, and I can't help but run my eyes over his cheeks, his ears, the freckle on his face. I think about how many times I've kissed that exact spot. When someone breaks up with you they should take their memories with them. It shouldn't be possible to remember someone when they're no longer there. — Rebecca Serle

Sometimes ... the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them. — Rebecca Serle

That's the thing about the places we come from - they probably say the least about who we really are than anything. — Rebecca Serle

How are you?" Charlie asks. She's turned to me wearing this grave expression, her features all set in a row. I expected her to be pissy about my being nonresponsive all weekend, or at least about my being late this morning, but if she is, she's not acting like it.
"Um, fine. Are we going?"
Charlie glances back at Olivia.
"He's an asshole," Olivia says.
"She's a bitch," Charlie says. — Rebecca Serle

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

But it doesn't matter now. It's like an umbrella in the middle of a rainstorm after you're already wet. It's exactly what you need, what you want, but it's come too late. — Rebecca Serle

If I could go back to that night in May, I'd do things very differently. I'd never end up on that rooftop with Kristen. I'd never save her. I wouldn't have to.
But even stories with the biggest impact, perhaps particularly these, don't have the power to be re-written. If if if if ... would everything be different? It doesn't matter though. What's done is done. — Rebecca Serle

I understand, now, that your own identity, your past, has nothing to do with the way others see you. Being a hero isn't about someone else's definition. Not Abigail's and not Constance's. Not the Post's. Not even Claire's. Being a hero is about one thing: the way you see yourself. — Rebecca Serle

This is life." he says. "We have to take it as it comes, because even though some things are really shitty, there's a lot of good stuff too. — Rebecca Serle

Epic, epic love is not about having someone. It's about being willing to give them up. It's sacrifice. It's my mom's theater tickets stuffed down at the bottom of her jewelry box. It's Noah and August. It's my sister and Annabelle. It's Jordan and his mom, the truth he reserves to protect her. And see, that's the thing I didn't understand. The thing no one tells you. That just because you find love doesn't mean it's yours to keep. Love never belongs to you. It belongs to the universe. — Rebecca Serle

Destiny might drop you off somewhere but it's your job to get where you're going, to decide your own ending ... — Rebecca Serle

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

She finally understands what it means to fall into someone, that part of loving someone where you're totally consumed by them. — Rebecca Serle

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

I guess that's the thing about getting older. You realize your differences can be good things. Not just bad ones. — Rebecca Serle

That was the night I learned that the things we don't ask about - ignore, walk by - those can be the most deadly of all. — Rebecca Serle

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

The unspoken motto of our house: If you stay closer to the ground, you have less distance to fall, — Rebecca Serle

There are things you cannot share with friends. Even best ones. Some secrets that are kinder just to keep. — Rebecca Serle

Let's just day love isn't easy. even when you're the sole survivors of a plane crash and you have the hots for each other. — Rebecca Serle

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

Sometimes,' he starts, 'the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them. — Rebecca Serle

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

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

He raises his glass, and I surprise myself by doing the same. Then he looks me square in the eye. There's a lot in that look. It's enticing, nerveracking. Like a roller coaster that you know is going to make your heart plummet down into your stomach, but it must be what you want, because you get on anyway. — Rebecca Serle

I've been working on my honesty this summer. I've told such a big lie, such a massively irreversible one, that I figure I need to somehow even the score. But the thing about lying is that it's not so easy to stop. Lies need one another, like a school of fish. If you start to separate them, they'll be killed off one by one. Sometimes the only way to keep lies alive is to tell more of them. — Rebecca Serle

And what is more dramatic, really, than heartbreak? — Rebecca Serle

[ ... ] 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

Life isn't meant to be believable. It's meant to be magical. Haven't you heard? Truth is stranger than fiction. — Rebecca Serle

No one ever died from having too much information. It's the misunderstandings that are the problem. — Rebecca Serle