“There are so many people in this world who make you feel like an alien. When you find someone who "gets it," you don't take it for granted.”Tagged: Friendship, Relationships, People, Love
“We’re best friends because you make feel less alone in this psycho, flaky world. It’s amazing how often you can feel disconnected from people. It’s amazing how many people can betray you, or fail to understand the words that are coming out of your mouth. When I see you, it’s a burst of reassurance…”Tagged: Friendship, Best Friends, Friends
“If you’re fortunate enough, you will find a person who sees this world in the exact same way that you do.”Tagged: Friendship, Life, Friends, Love
“Life is so messy and difficult. The best you can really hope for is that you have a friend who anchors you and makes you feel safe. It helps if this friend has really great hair too.”Tagged: Friendship, Love, Best Friends, Friends
“Somebody loves you if they call you out on your bullshit. They’re not passive, they don’t just let you get away with murder. They know you well enough and care about you enough to ask you to chill out, to bust your balls, to tell you to stop. They aren’t passive observers in your life, they are in…”Tagged: Love, Friendship
“Somebody loves you if they assume the role of caretaker when you’re sick. Unsure if someone really gives a shit about you? Fake a case of food poisoning and text them being like, ‘oh my god, so sick. need water.’ Depending on their response, you’ll know whether or not they REALLY love you. ‘That’s…”Tagged: Love, Friendship, Sick
“You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as…”Tagged: Love, Friendship, Relationships, families
“I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I’m surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you’re different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they…”Tagged: Love, Friendship, Relationships, People, Positivity
“It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely.”Tagged: Loneliness, Friendship, Belonging, Meaning, Relationships
“Stop thinking that everyone is having more sex than you, that everyone has more friends than you, that everyone out is having more fun than you. Not because it’s not true (it might be!) but because that kind of thinking leaves you frozen.”Tagged: Sex, Relationships, Envy, Friendship, Friends
“You’re going to lose touch with a lot of your friends. With some people, it will be expected but with others it will feel like a punch to the stomach. No friendship is truly safe in your twenties. Don’t worry though. You’ll end up with the ones that matter. If someone’s no longer in your life, it’s…”Tagged: Friendship, Twenties, Losing Friends