“I’ve contacted so many people after they ghosted me because I wanted closure & if you've thought about doing this, let me save you some time. It is literally never worth it. Every one told me they were scared/not over an ex etc., so when you're ghosted, move on. It's almost always them, not you.”— Lane Moore, twitter.com
“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all.”— Leila Sales, amazon.com
“It's not who you know. It's who you know once you know what you need to know.”— Eric Alper, twitter.com
“Something straight men don’t seem to realise or want to acknowledge: women get rejected, too. Women and girls get sexually frustrated and lonely, too. The difference is that we’re never taught that violence is an acceptable way to handle those feelings.”— Laurie Penny, twitter.com
“One 2015 study in the journal Economic Inquiry, for example, found that couples who dated for one to two years were 20 percent less likely to later get a divorce than those who dated less than a year, and couples who dated for three years or longer were 39 percent less likely.”— Allie Jones, thecut.com
“My ability to go with the flow and take this big life event in stride has benefitted both of us. We have made a handful of big moves together, and this one — the biggest yet — has also been the calmest.”— Jamie Friedlander, thecut.com
“But this narrative around a lack of commitment (from men, in particular) is perhaps less broadly appealing than the careerist one we usually hear—the one that draws on the generational boogeywoman of the millennial who is destroying the natural order of things by delaying marriage, having casual sex…”— TRACY CLARK-FLORY, jezebel.com
“As I looked at all the relationships around me... Some that had gone on forever... some that were reigniting... and some that had just begun... I realized something: It should have been me.”— Janae Bakken, John 'J.D.' Dorian, Zach Braff, imdb.com
“It was just like, 'Let's stop playing. We really love each other. I'm scared to lose you, and you scared to lose me.'”— Cardi B, gq.com
“You build up relationships like that one after another, and before you know it, you have meaning. The more connections, the deeper the meaning.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Men love solving problems. It’s a quality that I appreciate when I’m having trouble packing the trunk for my road trip to Tucson, but that I resent when I’m trying to emote.”— Sophia Benoit, gq.com
“Dr. Cox: So my girlfriend serviced most of the staff? I'm proud of her commitment to medicine. Carla: It's not like you haven't had sex with other people. Your ex-wife, that med student, your ex-wife, the cute nurse from radiology, your ex-wife... Dr. Cox: Would you get off my ex-wife? Carla: I will…”— Janae Bakken, Carla Espinosa, Judy Reyes, imdb.com
“Relationships don't work the way they do on television and in the movies. Will they? Won't they? And then they finally do, and they're happy forever. Gimme a break. Nine out of ten of them end because they weren't right for each other to begin with, and half of the ones who get married get divorced…”— Gabrielle Allan, Perry Cox, John C. McGinley, imdb.com
“It was a matter of knowing it was O.K. to want. Can any of us rely on someone not rejecting us?”— Glen David Gold, nytimes.com
“How do you explain every version of yourself to someone who’s barely met you?”— Dana Schwartz, buzzfeed.com
“We are often more harsh to ourselves than we ever would be with those we care about.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“As individuals each of us is extremely isolated, while at the same time we are linked by a prototypical memory.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com