In Five Years
Rebecca Serle, 2020
Romance Contemporary fictionFantasy
A woman who has built her life on plans gets a five-year glimpse of a future she never chose—and has to decide what to do with the present.
Feels like longing and hope. About love and freedom.
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A sentence that argues love isn't a promise but a presence, not a destination but a way of standing in time.
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.Rebecca Serle also wrote The Dinner List and One Italian Summer; In Five Years became a New York Times bestseller.
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Questions readers ask
- What is In Five Years like?
- Feels like longing and hope. About love and freedom.
- What should I read after In Five Years?
- If you liked In Five Years, try The Sun Is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon), Iron Flame (Rebecca Yarros) and The Selection (Kiera Cass).
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A word for the feeling that someone is already your future.
There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.
The Sun Is Also a Star · Nicola Yoon
What does a place cost you after it stops asking for something obvious?
The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.
Iron Flame · Rebecca Yarros
A blessing for love that doubles as a warning.
I hope you find someone you can’t live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it’s like to have to try and live without them.
The Selection · Kiera Cass
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