“Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“If you think feelings are sneaking up on you with a casual FWB, be honest. Don't try to stifle them and continue having casual sex with him. That's just a recipe for disaster.”— Zahra Barnes, self.com
“Sex is sex, and if you’re just going to have sex then you cannot talk about your feelings with each other. No meaningful conversations, no intimate evenings, and no crying on his shoulder.”— Trina, youqueen.com
“Don’t let anyone try to use casual dating against you. Slut shaming isn’t cool, and you still have feelings even if you don’t want to settle down.”— Adriana, badgirlsbible.com
“If you or your partner can't ignore your feelings, reconsider the arrangement. Casual sex should be unemotional, not sociopathic. Don't hurt anyone or set yourself up to be hurt—unless, you know, masochism is your thing.”— Ben Kassoy, gq.com
“The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this. Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: ‘These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself.”— Henri J.M. Nouwen, amazon.com
“I wanna tell you something, but I don’t really wanna talk about it because I’m not sure how I feel about it, and I don’t wanna be told how to feel.”— Sheila Callaghan, Debbie Gallagher, Emma Kenney, imdb.com
“I have to remember that feelings won’t kill me. But running from them can.”— Zara Barrie, elitedaily.com
“The most common sign that something is seriously wrong is that something just doesn’t feel right between the two of you anymore. Usually, this is a sign that he’s unhappy with how the relationship is going.”— Ossiana Tepfenhart, thebolde.com
“You should say how you feel before it stays in the darkness so long that it becomes the foundation on which the rest of your life is built.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Nothing drives you crazy like inconsistency does. You want consistent communication, consistent dates and you want to be a part of this person’s everyday life — not just on weekends.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“It comes naturally to you to say how you feel, even if it’s too early, so you’re always caught between wanting to say how you feel and waiting for the right moment when the other person is ready or if you’re sure they feel the same way.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Trying to change how you feel is like finding a road sign that points in the opposite direction of where you had intended to go and getting out to try to turn the sign, rather than the course of action.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“We avoid feeling anything because we have more or less been taught that our feelings have lives of their own. That they'll carry on forever if we give them even a moment of our awareness.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You're always yelling at me! You never listen to me! What about my feelings?!”— Jesse Metcalfe, John Tucker, amazon.com
“You can either say how you feel and fuck it up or say nothing and let it fuck you up instead.”— Lauren Jauregui, instagram.com
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“You learned early on that physical age is not synonymous with intuition, empathy, creativeness or general intelligence.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com