Expiration Dates Quotes

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“No one’s time is promised. Not yours. Not Mom’s. Not mine. Not Jake’s. It’s just the way it is. We are all dying. Every day. And at some point it becomes a choice. Which one are you going to do today? Are you living or are you dying?”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“The thing no one ever wants to say about dating is this: It’s hard to be real, sure. It’s harder to let someone else be.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“But being surprised by life isn't losing, it's living. It's messy and uncomfortable and complicated and beautiful. It's life, all of it. The only way to get it wrong is to refuse to play.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“To meet the right person, to be with someone I want to see in the morning and naked. To not be afraid to have a bad day around them. To be happy, I guess.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“My life has been filled with magical moments, I was just so busy waiting I didn’t see them when they were here.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“Of course,” I say. A wink. A smile. I’m watching you, or Everything is going to be all right. Love is a net. It can catch you long after the person is no longer there.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“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 we owe each other. But in what order?”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“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)”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“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)”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“wonder if sex might express something else—some level of tenderness. If we might be able to judge not the strength of a person’s feelings but the measure of their care.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“When do we stop believing in the things we do? And why does it happen so slowly instead of all at once? It”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“But that’s love, isn’t it? The belief in something you cannot see or touch or even explain. Like the heart itself, we just know it’s there.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“I don't think the opposite of casual is serious, actually."
"What is it then?"
Jake looks at me. His hazel eyes appear almost gold underneath the light of the heat lamp - tiny specs of sunlight. "Depth," he says. "The opposite of casual is deep.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“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.

(Daphne Bell)”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“But being surprised by life isn’t losing, it’s living. It’s messy and uncomfortable and complicated and beautiful. It’s life, all of it. The only way to get it wrong is to refuse to play.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“If you never stop long enough to sink into something, then it can’t destroy you. It’s easier to climb out of a pool than a well, is the thing.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“The problem with love is that it’s not enough,” she says. And then she looks up at me. Her eyes are still soft. “But it’s also nearly impossible to let go of once you’ve found it.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“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?”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“I read in a magazine one time that every woman should spend five minutes a day staring at her naked body. I’d rather hurl myself off a balcony.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“I force myself to meet my own eyes in the mirror. I force myself to see the person across from me. She is wrecked and wretched and distorted. She has been pulled apart.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“Portland?” I ask. “Seattle,” he says. “I’ve never been,” I tell him. “All I know is what I saw in Fifty Shades of Grey.” He looks at me dead-on. “The most accurate representation of our city I can think of. Great work.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“courtyard”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“Someone explain decorative pillows to me,” he says. “No one knows, everyone just has them.” “We need to start asking ourselves why.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“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”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“We live in an age of romance where you can pick from thousands of strangers on the internet. Pretty much everyone fears buyer’s remorse.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“Time is a funny thing. The way it doubles back and leaps forward. The way six years can pass in a blink but a moment can stretch to a decade.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

“Conversations around weight bored me. There were so many more interesting things to talk about than the particular shape of someone’s body.”
― Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates