“I need you to know: I hated that I needed more than this from him. There is nothing more humiliating to me than my own desires. Nothing that makes me hate myself more than being burdensome and less than self-sufficient. I did not want to feel like the kind of nagging woman who might exist in a sit-c…”— CJ Hauser, theparisreview.org
“You deserve conversation, flirtation, consideration. You deserve all of the fucks, my friend.”— Ella Dawson, elladawson.com
“The behavior of termites, together with ants and bees, is a precursor to trust because they have an extraordinary ability to form relationships and sophisticated social structures based on mutual altruism even though individually they are fundamentally dumb. Money itself is a derivative of trust. If…”— Jeffrey Epstein, nymag.com
“I'm not a prop for you to use When you're lonely or confused I want a love that lets me breathe I've been choking on your leash”— Soccer Mommy, open.spotify.com
“One thing, I have learned in my life till now; You can be important to someone but not all the time.”— Sahil Verma, google.com
“I swore you'd never see this side But it's so hard to say goodbye I don't need to apologize Us big girls got to cry”— Lizzo, open.spotify.com
“There’s not a single person on this planet who can navigate everything by themselves. We’re in this life together, tethered to each other, fumbling and trying to find our way—and we all need help sometimes. We aren’t meant to go at it alone. And you aren’t meant to struggle in silence.”— Daniell Koepke, shopcatalog.com
“I don't think relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right thing and behave the way we always want to behave.”— Jack Nicholson, telegraph.co.uk
“Polyamory is about understanding that there is no such thing as a ‘perfect’ individual partner for you.”— Alyssa Henley, broadly.vice.com
“Love is posting your private text messages with your significant other on Pinterest.”— Cody Ko, youtube.com
“My mom says we’re like the sun and the moon. Just because two forces are great doesn’t mean they belong together. The rhythm of the world is great because they are in their own orbit.”— Noah Centineo, twitter.com
“It’s a slot machine pass that you always win: Put in a bit of time and a few swipes, crank the lever, and out comes a parade of choices of people who might call you pretty and say they want to buy you a drink.”— Dana Schwartz, amazon.com
“How could you not be caught between the people who raised you and the family that you created by choice?”— Dana Freeman, thecut.com
“That's something we continually struggle with—understanding each other's lifestyle preferences and then adapting to them, or sort of the meeting in the middle.”— Marie Claire, marieclaire.com
“Breaking up, as shitty as it is, comes with at least one theoretical silver lining: getting the fuck out of dodge so you can get over it and get on with your life.”— Tracy Moore, melmagazine.com
“I had woken up crying and realized after a few hours that I wouldn’t be able to stop until I let him go. When my gut takes over, I can turn into a beast. I knew I had to do this but didn’t know how.”— Nasreen Yazdani, nytimes.com
“Somehow, we have internalized the idea that to be in love is to put up with your partner’s snoring, insomnia, or thrashing midnight movements until the day one of you dies—or you break up because you’re so sleep-deprived.”— Rosie Spinks, qz.com