It seems impossible we’ll ever get both parties on the same page, but somehow we do. Apocalyptic scenarios, disagreements, and details that threaten to topple it all. I love the order of deal making, the clarity of language – how there is little room for interpretation and none for error. – from In Five Years book by Rebecca Serle There are a few ways to get ahead at a corporate law firm, and being the managing partner’s favorite is definitely one of them. No one who has lost a sibling at twelve can say with a straight face: everything happens for a reason. To take all the words in your brain and turn them over, one by one, like stones – and find something else scrolled on the underside.

I think you need a certain looseness, a certain fluidity, to speak another language. They say that languages come better to people who are right-brained, but I’m not so sure. Spend seven hundred dollars on dinner, come home to eat eight-dollar fried rice. That is the thing about relationships: it’s not necessary to say everything. But I believe in romance, which is to say, I believe in calling to inquire about a date instead of texting, and flowers after sex, and Frank Sinatra at an engagement. To be surrounded by the pace and rhythm of greatness.

Book in five years by rebecca serle