“A love story can be magical if your motivation is to experience as many whirlwinds as possible. What’s tricky is that a love story usually won’t turn into lasting love—even if you desperately want it to.”— Jessica A, psiloveyou.xyz
“First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes a global pandemic altering everyone's five-year plans.”— Griffin Wynne, bustle.com
“Know what I do when I meet a guy’s eyes I’m not interested in, but can sense he’s interested in me? I immediately look down and away and avoid looking in his general direction again.”— Tara Blair Ball, psiloveyou.xyz
“You need to believe them because they are trying to tell you the truth, even if it’s a truth you don’t want to hear.”— Lacey Ramburger, thoughtcatalog.com
“Romantic desire is complicated for everyone, but for us it is so often political.”— Loré Yessuff, nytimes.com
“I have always been an extroverted introvert, a contradicting duality I often attribute to being a Gemini, which makes connecting with people difficult.”— Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, autostraddle.com
“If you choose to mask up — and health experts say you should — expect some mixed signals, or no signals at all.”— Courtney Rubin, nytimes.com
“Women who don’t develop an extra layer of confidence become victims. They wind up falling for jerks and losers — like I did.”— Jessica Wildfire, psiloveyou.xyz
“If something truly meant nothing, it’s not a big deal if you choose not to tell your partner. But you have to be clear with yourself whether something is or isn’t a big deal.”— Tara Blair Ball, psiloveyou.xyz
“It’s not a story about how we moved in together immediately after because we didn’t want to be apart when we got back, or how we got married last month over Zoom because of the pandemic.”— Nadine Clay, psiloveyou.xyz
“If Lesbian TikTok were its own world, it could be broken down into many countries with their own national anthems — songs played over and over in users’ videos. There are the cottagecore girls (anthem: Mitski’s 'Strawberry Blonde' or anything by Hozier), the couples (anthem: Girl in Red’s 'We Fell i…”— Lena Wilson, nytimes.com
“There are no love stories, no romance novels, no television plot lines that show us how to desire someone with a sexually transmitted infection. The lone exception is the canon (positive and negative) of HIV stories, but HIV and HSV share little more than letters.”— Ella Dawson, elladawson.com
“We have a lot of feelings about the way dating works right now, as we live through a global pandemic. We’re sad and angry and frustrated and horny and NOT horny and, I guess, occasionally happy?”— Vanessa Pamela, autostraddle.com
“Let’s be serious, numbers are tough to come by, but even Fauci would tell you that if someone you live with has corona you’re likely to contract it too.”— Emyli Lovz, thoughtcatalog.com
“Being good in bed, fundamentally, is about being able to read someone else, and men are learning false cues.”— Emma Lindsay, medium.com
“It’s so easy as you get older to find the best in who you’ve become, to make the most of it — and maybe even to get a little complacent about it.”— Lindsay Crouse, New York Times, nytimes.com
“An unattended hand sanitizer sits on a table, right next to a cappuccino, eyed covetously by the people nearby. Someone coughs. Everyone cringes.”— Elise Taylor , Vogue, vogue.com
“Darren: You look beautiful. Sarah: So do you.”— Jeff Baena, Alison Brie, Sarah, Alison Brie, imdb.com