“With the emotional relationship, give them time to process your confession, but at the same time, don’t let them off the hook for an answer.”— The Wing Girls, amazon.com
“It’s never going to seem natural to go into the Confession in a relationship like this, so it’s best to just acknowledge that it’s a little awkward or hard for you to do, and then just go for it.”— The Wing Girls, amazon.com
“Just remember to say how you feel and ask them how they feel about you. Your own relationship up to this point will dictate your tone and how out there you want to be with your confession.”— The Wing Girls, amazon.com
“The goal is not to catch the person off-guard and knock their socks off. The goal is to gently let them know how you feel and find out how they feel about you.”— The Wing Girls, amazon.com
“If you’ve never told your friend explicitly how you feel about them— that you like them, as more than a friend— then please, for God’s sake, assume that they don’t know.”— The Wing Girls, amazon.com
“There is nothing more fun in life than doing what you really want to do, deep in your heart, without fear, knowing that either way, you will be a better version of yourself in the end: the one who says what they feel and then gets the person of their dreams, or at least can move on and meet the actu…”— The Wing Girls, amazon.com
“Being willing to lose what you have right now may lead to your biggest gain.”— The Wing Girls, amazon.com
“Once you put your feelings on the line, there’s no going back. Whatever you two had going on before is going to be different once you say that you like them as more than a friend.”— The Wing Girls, amazon.com
“Every Friend Zone relationship has a shelf life. You can’t live in this fuzzy gray area forever, and you won’t. Eventually someone jumps ship, and it probably won’t be you. So if it’s going to end sometime, it might as well be on your terms and when you can give it a real shot. What we’re saying is:…”— The Wing Girls, amazon.com
“But we think the whole save-the-friendship thing is just an excuse, so you don’t have to feel bad for not doing what you really want to do. What you’re actually afraid of is rejection and loss. We all are, but anything worth having is going to cost you.”— The Wing Girls, amazon.com
“I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“All hatred is self-hatred. This is why we become so goddamned heartbroken. We cannot lose people; we can only lose ourselves in an idea of them. We decided how we felt about ourselves through them - for better or for worse - so when we perceive that their mindset changes from loving us to loving som…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“If your life is missing something you cannot place back into it, restructure. You will get nowhere dismantling the pieces with nothing to take their place.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You're not upset about what you lost - you're upset about what you never really had the chance to have in the first place.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“If you believe you're the kind of person who can bear pain or loss, you will be the kind of person who can bear pain or loss. If you believe you're worthy of love, you will experience love when it comes.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Happy people may lose everything they have but people who never choose to fully step into their lives never have anything at all.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com