In Five Years Quotes

“But you’re not in love with him. You may have been at first, but if you were I never really saw it, and I don’t have the luxury of pretending anymore. And what I realized is that you don’t, either. If there’s a clock ticking toward anything, it should be your happiness.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Whether this is the beginning of goodbye for us, too. I do not know. I have no idea what happens now.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“But all of that is an hour from now. Now, on the other side of midnight, we do not know yet what is coming. So be it. So let it be.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

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

“Here is the thing no one tells you about cancer: they ease you into it. After the initial shock, after the diagnosis and the terror, they put you on the slow conveyor belt. They start you off nice and easy. You want some lemon water with that chemo? You got it. Radiation? No problem, everyone does it, it’s practically weed. We’ll serve you those chemicals with a smile. You’ll love them, you’ll see.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“But you’re not in love with him. You may have been at first, but if you were I never really saw it, and I don’t have the luxury of pretending anymore. And what I realized is that you don’t, either. If there’s a clock ticking toward anything, it should be your happiness.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

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

“It’s that they never had any interest in being parents. They had Bella because having children was a thing they thought you should do, but they didn’t want to raise her, not really.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Litigating is bending the law to your will, it’s deception, it’s all about perception. Can you convince a jury? Can you make people feel? In deal making, nothing is above the law. The written words are what matters. Everything is there in black and white.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“The thing many people don’t realize about corporate lawyers is that they are nothing like what you see on TV shows. Sherry, Aldridge, and I will never step foot in a courtroom. We’ll never argue a case. We do deals; we’re not litigators. We prepare documents and review every piece of paperwork for a merger or an acquisition. Or to take a company public. On Suits, Harvey does both paperwork and crushes it in court. In reality, the lawyers at our firm who argue cases don’t have a clue what we do in these conference rooms. Most of them haven’t prepared a document in a decade. People think our form of corporate law is the less ambitious of the two, and while in many ways it’s less glamorous—no closing arguments, no media interviews—nothing compares to the power of the paper. At the end of the day, law comes down to what is written, and we do the writing. I love the order of deal making, the clarity of language—how there is little room for interpretation and none for error. I love the black-and-white terms. I love that in the final stages of closing a deal—particularly those of the magnitude Wachtell takes on—seemingly insurmountable obstacles arise. Apocalyptic scenarios, disagreements, and details that threaten to topple it all. It seems impossible we’ll ever get both parties on the same page, but somehow we do. Somehow, contracts get agreed upon and signed. Somehow, deals get done. And when it finally happens, it’s exhilarating. Better than any day in court. It’s written. Binding. 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. I”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“It’s written. Binding. 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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“I’m sorry,” I say. “I’m”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Bay”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― 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

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“If you want your dreams you should look for abundance, not scarcity.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“David in the blue shirt shakes Aaron in the white shirt’s hand.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“unfathomable;”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

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

“If you can reach out and hold the other person's hand, does the distance matter? Is simply being able to see someone valuable?”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“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.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Greg.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“I start, just as the restaurant door opens and out onto the pavement walks Greg. Except he’s not Greg. He’s Aaron.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Thank”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years