In Five Years Quotes

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“I am constantly trying to learn the rules, only to realize that the people who win don't seem to follow any.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Happiness. The enemy of all suffering.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“I think sacrifice is in direct opposition to manifestation. If you want your dreams you should look for abundance, not scarcity.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, 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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“It is not love, this feeling.
It is grief.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Love doesn't require a future.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“If there’s a clock ticking toward anything, it should be your happiness.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“But, sitting here at my desk, I realize something else. We've been on these parallel tracks, David and I. Moving constantly forward in space but never actually touching, for fear of throwing each other off course. Like if we were aligned in the same direction, we'd never have to compromise. 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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“There is a path of land that exists Beyond the sea and the sky. It is behind the mountains, Past even the hills— Those of luscious green that Roll up into the heavens. I have been there, with you. It is not big, although not too small. Perhaps you could perch a house on its width, But we have never considered it. What would be the use? We already live there. When the night closes And the city stills, I am there, with you. Our mouths laughing, our heads vacant Of all but what is. And what is? I ask. This, you say. You and I, here.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“When I go to speak, I realize the entire apartment is filled with water and I'm choking on everything I cannot say.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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?”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“I need the morning. There’s something about being the first one awake that feels precious, rare. I feel accomplished before I’ve even had my first cup of coffee. The whole day is better.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“We’ve been on these parallel tracks, David and I. Moving constantly forward in space but never actually touching, for fear of throwing each other off course. Like if we were aligned in the same direction, we’d never have to compromise. 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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Here was this girl, my best friend, who fit in this faraway place like a hand to a glove. I didn't, and yet she still took me with her. She was always taking me with her, wanting me to be. part of her wide, open life. How could I feel anything but lucky?”
― Rebecca Serle, 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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“All the preparedness in the world cannot stop the unexpected from happening”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“So be it, so let it be.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“We are like constellations passing each other, seeing each other's light but in the distance. It feels impossible how much space there can be in this intimacy, how much privacy. And I think maybe that is what love is. Not the absence of space but the acknowledgement of it, the thing that lives between the parts, the thing that makes it possible not to be one, but to be different, to be two.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“think sacrifice is in direct opposition to manifestation. If you want your dreams you should look for abundance, not scarcity.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“I have been asked if I’ve needed help so many times 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. But not now, not anymore.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years