Top 120 Rebecca Serle Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Naples is a strange city,” he says. “It’s in tatters in some places, absolutely run-down, but there’s also this persevering Mediterranean beauty, almost Grecian. It was the most bombed Italian city in World War Two and has a largely tragic history – a huge cholera epidemic, poverty, crime – but there’s this strength to this place and its people. I find that beauty next to decay is its own kind of stunning. You can really feel it when you’re there.”

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102. “It happens quickly and then slowly. We plummet fast, and then we exist at the bottom of the ocean for 8 days, an impossible amount of time to breathe only water.”

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103. “And in that gaze I see it all – birthdays and dinners and shopping trips. Mornings spent watching soap operas in her bed. Nights on the phone. Care packages mailed to New York City. Scraped elbows and fevers and her voice, always her voice. Everything is going to be all right. You’re okay. I’ve got you.”

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104. “I cannot yet conceive of a world without her, what that will look like, who I am in her absence.”

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105. “Sometimes I think it didn’t work because it wasn’t right, and sometimes I think it didn’t work because I refused to let it.”

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

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107. “This is what I’ve always wanted. To be somewhere that stops at nothing. To be surrounded by the pace and rhythm of greatness.”

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108. “Twenty-four. That’s how many months I believe you should be dating someone before you move in with them. Twenty-eight. The right age to get engaged. Thirty. The right age to get married.”

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109. “You act like you don’t know how you got here, like you just woke up and looked around and thought, Huh – but I have news for you. Even inaction is a choice.”

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110. “I was lucky. I didn’t have a mother who longed for her youth. At least, I never thought I did. She embraced aging.”

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111. “This experience does not fit in your life, you have not taken any steps to have it, and yet here it is.”

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112. “Actions only have the weight we give them. We can decide what something means.”

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113. “I start, just as the restaurant door opens and out onto the pavement walks Greg. Except he’s not Greg. He’s Aaron.”

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114. “All the preparedness in the world cannot stop the unexpected from happening. Truly great lawyers know every inch of their deal, but often they make decisions based on something else – the presence of an unknown force that, if listened to, will betray exactly the way the tide is turning.”

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115. “You’re an inquisitive person,” I had written to her. “You question everything. But you never questioned Sumir.”

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116. “This form of fun does not come naturally to me, and therefore feels impossible to engage in. 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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117. “The present is relentless. It forces us over and over again to pay attention. It requires all of us. As well it should.”

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118. “I have no idea why I’m doing this. I know exactly why I’m doing this.”

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119. “I’m sorry,” I say. “I’m.”

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120. “There’s nothing separating us from the ocean but a sand dune. I love it. As soon as we pass the Stargazer and turn onto 27, I lower the window to let in the thick, salty air. I immediately start to relax. I love the massive old trees lining the lanes and stretching down to that wide expanse of beach – big sky, big ocean, and air. Room.”

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121. “David in the blue shirt shakes Aaron in the white shirt’s hand.”

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122. “Do not be fooled into believing that you do not know which is which. Follow the feeling, follow it all the way home.”

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123. “One should always let waiters choose food, and builders choose wood,” she says. “Something my father used to say.”

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124. “Maybe she knew there wasn’t time to waste.”

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125. “It’s hard to be good at what you don’t love.”

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126. “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.”

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127. “But Bella has always been one for a project. She loves potential, possibility, an unknown terrain such as this one.”

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128. “It has all made my blood pump faster and my skin feel softer, weightier. The blessing of this life, this one, brilliant, beautiful life. All the loss and anguish. All the joy that makes it possible. The tender connections, the fragility, the impossible odds of being here, now, together. The choice of continuing to make it so.”

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129. “I do not belong to anyone. Not in that way, not any longer. I am my own, just as she was hers.”

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130. “We don’t know. We’re all grasping. We’re all pretending now. Pretending this was the hard part. Pretending it’s over and behind us.”

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131. “We made promises in a world lit with light. We do not know how to keep them in the darkness.”

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132. “I always wondered how people who had just been delivered tragic news and had to fly on airplanes did it. Every plane must carry someone who is going to their dying mother’s bedside, their friend’s car accident, the sight of their burned home.”

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133. “But I’ve done so little of this – this kind of fun, this kind of abandon. I feel the decade of playing grown-up clawing at me, all the years not spent getting drunk on dance floors presenting themselves here, tonight.”

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