Top 120 Rebecca Serle Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “Worrying is wishing for what you don’t want.”

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3. “Sometimes you have to sacrifice to achieve your dreams.”

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4. “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.”

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5. “I think sacrifice is in direct opposition to manifestation. If you want your dreams you should look for abundance, not scarcity.”

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

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7. “I love the order of deal making, the clarity oof language – how there is little room for interpretation and none for error. I love the black-and-white terms.”

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8. “I am constantly trying to learn the rules, only to realize that the people who win don’t seem to follow any.”

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9. “What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?”

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10. “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.”

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11. “Happiness. The enemy of all suffering.”

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12. “The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he’d said. The future always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has to run to sea.”

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13. “If there’s a clock ticking toward anything, it should be your happiness.”

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14. “They have the best eggs and croque monsieur on the planet – and their coffee is strong and rich.”

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15. “I wish you understood that you could have love beyond your wildest dreams. Stuff movies are made of. You’re meant for that, too.” “I don’t think I am.” “You are. You know how I know?”

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16. “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.”

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17. “A kid zooms past us with a basketball, his mother sprinting after him. The city. Full and buzzy and unaware that somewhere, fifteen blocks south, tiny cells are multiplying in a plot to destroy the whole world.”

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18. “I had to dim my light. It was not an easy thing to be married to a celebrity. But it’s also not an easy thing to be married to darkness. Eventually I dimmed so far I extinguished.”

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19. “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.”

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20. “You are not wrong for loving what you do,” he says. “You are lucky. Life doesn’t hand everyone a passion in their profession. You and I won that round.” “It doesn’t feel like winning,” I say. “No,” Aldridge says. “It often doesn’t.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “She finally understands what it means to fall into someone, that part of loving someone where you’re totally consumed by them.”

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24. “The wind is low and languid, and the city is buzzy with the happy, contented quality of routine.”

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25. “Habits make of tomorrow, yesterday.”

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26. “When I go to speak, I realize the entire apartment is filled with water and I’m choking on everything I cannot say.”

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27. “Worrying is wishing for what you don’t want. Man plans and God laughs.”

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28. “Sometimes I think that the only true way we can ever know a thing’s value is by losing it.”

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29. “Consistent contentment rarely makes for good storytelling.”

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30. “Like their love story was so epic the day-to-day didn’t matter. But that’s what relationships are. They’re the day-to-day.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “Life isn’t meant to be believable. It’s meant to be magical. Haven’t you heard? Truth is stranger than fiction.”

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33. “What I am telling you is that it’s not your place. You do not get to reignite someone else’s life.”

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34. “When you suffer alone it’s terrible,” she says. “But when you watch other people suffer, innocent people, those that cannot help themselves – it is worse.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “And what is more dramatic, really, than heartbreak?”

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37. “In those two years in the beginning I was happy, and happiness has a way of quickening. Grief marks things. Joy lets them through. Days and months can pass in the blink of an eye. I was happier than I ever remember being in my life. Things changed. Jessica and I moved out. Tobias and I moved in. She got engaged. Then married. And then, he left. We were two years in, six since Santa Monica. What I didn’t know then was that we were only halfway there.”

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38. “You cannot have good without evil,” Audrey says. “They are like DNA strands. Intricately and irrevocably spun together. Sometimes good wins, sometimes evil does. We do not fight for good’s permanent triumph, but for the balance. And so it goes.”

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39. “Never trust anyone who hasn’t had their heart broken. It’s a before and after, You never quite see the world the same way again.”

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40. “So you can’t just blame the person who leaves. If two people are unhappy, clocking the person who actually walks out the door is just getting them on a technicality.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “You’re here. One thing I’ve learned is that you can’t try and make this experience above the simplicity of humanity, it won’t work.”

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44. “She breaks off, and I am reminded, of course, of her mother. Of the cancer that came to claim her. Of the absence of her. At Jessica’s graduation. Wedding. The birth of her child. What wouldn’t she do to have one dinner with her? To get one night to tell her everything that happened and all the ways it was unfair? To sit in her presence and touch and gaze and mourn?”

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45. “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.”

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46. “You are not wrong for loving what you do. You are lucky. Life doesn’t hand everyone a passion in their profession.”

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47. “I dab some MyChelle serum on my face, comforted by the smell, the familiarity.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “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. I think about everything I have lost there, this fading island before me.”

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50. “There is no simple beauty in perfection.”

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