Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.
Gayle FormanTags: life fate key double-happiness
Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.
Gayle FormanBut the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.
Gayle FormanI just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.
Gayle FormanTags: life reality fight drama heartbreak letting-go
I’ve given up on Lulu before. In Utrecht. In Mexico. But that felt like surrendering. Like it was me I was really giving up on. This feels different, somehow. Like maybe Lulu brought me to this place, and for the first time in a long time, I’m on the cusp of something real. Maybe this is the point of it all. Maybe this is where the road is meant to end. I think of the postcards I left in her suitcase. I’d written sorry on one of them. Only now do I understand what I really should’ve written was thank you.
“Thank you,” I say quietly to the empty house. I know she’ll never hear it, but somehow that seems besides the point.
For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of double happiness and we were arguing over the meaning. She’d thought it meant the luck of the boy getting the job and the girl. But I’d disagreed. It was the couplet fitting together, the two halves finding each other. It was love.
But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It’s not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will.
Maybe for double happiness, you need both.
Sometimes I'll watch a movie all over again to recapture that feeling of being inside something real.
Gayle FormanThere are monsters all around us
They can be so hard to see
hey don't have fangs, no blood-soaked claws
They look like you and me.
But we're not defenseless
We're no damsels in distress
Together we can fend off the attack
All we gotta do is watch our backs.
Your body is beautiful how it is
Who you love is nobody's business
We all contemplate life and death
It's the poet who gives these thoughts
breath.
The monster is strong, don't be mistaken
It thrives on fear-keeps us isolated
But together we can fend off its attack
All we gotta do is watch our backs.
In your darkest hour
When the fight's made you weary
When you think you've lost your power
When you can't see clearly
When you're ready to surrender
Give in to the black
look over your shoulder
I've got your back.
Tags: song-lyrics fighting-spirit
Cinders, I would've thought you of all people would know better. There are no wicked stepmothers and there are no fairy godmothers, and there are no Prince Charmings. There in no preordained destiny. You get to decide that. You decide your destiny.
- V
Tags: wisdom truth-of-life blunt-truths
But you decide how you live your life in the meantime. You can hide fear. Or you can live life. - V
Gayle FormanTags: fearlessness fear-of-death live-in-the-here-and-now
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