21 Quotes by Kerry Winfrey

Love is pretty much always confusing, and it doesn't ever show up at a convenient time.

She squeals. Like, the response you might give if you were a teenage girl in the late '90s and the Backstreet Boys walked into the room. And list, I'm no Brian Littrell.

Everyone thinks of romantic comedies as being these sappy, unrealistic stories where love conquers all and everyone ends up happy at the end. But that's not what her movies were at all. Like, in Sleepless in Seattle, you can't really get any sadder that Tom Hanks missing his dead wife. And in You've Got Mail, Meg Ryan misses her mom and loses her store. None of that gets resolved by the end. It's not like Tom's wife comes back to life, and Meg Ryan still loses the business her mom built.

Truly, is there anything more romantic than Tom Hanks on a boat?

It’s ridiculous that someone decided twinkle lights are Christmas only things when desperately need them to get through the bleakness of the post holiday winter... Twinkle lights should be everywhere all the time.

The things that suck still suck, but they’re allowed to be happy. And maybe it means so much more that they’re happy, knowing that they still carry that sadness with them.

Sometimes we get chances – opportunities – that we’re meant to take. And if you take the leap, things will open up and change. And if you take a step back instead? Okay. That’s your decision. But you’ll never know what you were supposed to find out.

Everyone thinks of romantic comedies as being these sappy, unrealistic stories where love conquers all and everyone ends up happy at the end. But that’s not what her movies were at all. Like, in Sleepless in Seattle, you can’t really get any sadder that Tom Hanks missing his dead wife. And in You’ve Got Mail, Meg Ryan misses her mom and loses her store. None of that gets resolved by the end. It’s not like Tom’s wife comes back to life, and Meg Ryan still loses the business her mom built.

Maybe my person and I won’t fit together like two halves of the same whole, but neither did Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail or Sleepless in Seattle. They didn’t erase each other’s pain; they just made it bearable.