A review by loveclairee
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I still can't believe I managed to finish reading this book in less than 4 hours. This was such a quick read for me but insightful at the same time. 

Here are some lines that stood out for me:

"[...] If you want something as passionately as you clearly want this, that means you owe it to yourself to make it happen. That's what I'm doing. I want out so I'm getting out. I' going far, far away. You should, too." –Jesse

"Your parents don't have to be you. You hage to be you. [...] you did it their eay for a long time. Soon, it's time for you way." –Jesse

"You are my one true love. I don’t even think I'm capable of loving anyone else." –Emma

I had predicted my life on the idea that I wanted to see everywhere extraordinary, but I'd come to realize that extraordinary is everywhere. –Emma

When you lose someone you love, it's hard to imagine that you'll ever feel better. –Emma

Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you're used to being full of joy. But it's not so bad when you're used to feeling full of pain. –Emma

You know that you will never truly be free of the grief. You know that it is something you must learn to live with, something you manage. –Emma

And then, slowly, day by day, minute by minute, at such a snail's pace that you can barely register that anything is happening at all, you find a life's purpose again. –Emma

You are happier to have known him than you are sad to have lost him. –Emma 

Good things don't wait until you're ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you're almost there. And I figured when that happens, you can let them pass by, like a bus not meant for you. Or you get ready. So I get ready. –Emma

But realizing you want love in your life means you have to be willing to let love in. –Emma

He prioritized the heart of the situation over the details.  He paid attention to actions more than words. –Emma

" I don't expect you to stop loving him just because you love me."–Sam

You don't tie yourself to something unless you're scared you might float away. –Emma

There is other love out there for me. But its different. It isn't this. It isn't this exact love. It's better and it's worse. But I guess that's sort of the point of love between two people—you can't re-create it. Every time you love, everyone you love, the love is different. You're different in it. –Emma

"I want to be with someone who lives for me. I want to be with someone who considers me the love of her life. I deserve that." –Sam

For the first time, I find myself wondering if facing the truth and being sane aren't the same thing, if they are just two things that tend to go together. I'm starting to understand that they might be correlations rather than synonyms. –Emma

Falling out of love with someone you still like feels exactly like lying in a warm bed and hearing the alarm clock. No matter how good you feel right now, you know it's time to go. –Emma

I don't think that true love means your only love. 
I think true love means loving truly. 
Loving purely. Loving wholly. –Emma

I thank my friend for convincing me and letting me borrow her physical copy of this book. I've been putting off reading this book since the beginning of 2022 since I wanted to read it physically. By the way, I am Team Sam. 

Xoxo