“Old souls are not interested in playing hard to get or partaking in the chase. In fact, they find the rules of modern dating to be absolutely exhausting.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“A woman doesn't have to provide access to her body as proof she likes you or loves you.”— @zllieimani, pursuit0fhappyness.tumblr.com
“Dating is hard enough for our generation without almost-relationships confusing the hell out of us.”— Erica Gordon, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s all a big game and if you don’t play by the rules then you lose, and if you lose you end up alone and drowning in a pile of your own insecurity, wondering what you did wrong.”— Melissa Moeller, thoughtcatalog.com
“For you, even dating should be passionate. Being ‘chill’ or indifferent with the people you like will always be something you struggle with. Playing it cool is a game you hate playing.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.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
“For you, words of affirmation are everything and having to wait a few hours to text back, or keeping your messages short and cool is your worst nightmare because you have so much more you would like to say and you hate that responding immediately makes you look ‘too available.’”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say 'good morning' in public without being liquored up.”— Amelia Gray, amazon.com
“Want them when you can’t have them, because this is what you’re used to. And wish they were harder to get when they’re standing right in front of you, placing their beating heart into your hesitant hands.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“How many of us are still heartbroken over a guy we never dated? How many of us still go through old text messages, trying to figure out exactly where everything changed? How many of us replay old conversations and think of what we should’ve said to make us sound more chill, more laid back, less inte…”— Ashley Jones, thoughtcatalog.com
“You can’t love too little, and you can’t love too much. You can’t give too little, and you can’t give too much. Nothing is defined, so nothing can be one or the other. It is simply what you wish it to be in those moments. It’s grey.”— Meghan Logan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Often, when you’re out in the single world meeting people, you meet someone you like, get their number, and put it right in your phone, transforming them into an ‘option’ that lives in your device. Sometimes you and that option engage in some phone-based interaction and you meet up in person. But so…”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“Will someone decide they know exactly who I am without getting to know me outside of a 900 word essay?”— Kendra Syrdal, kendrasyrdal.tumblr.com
“I could earn my masters degree with the amount of time and energy it takes to determine whether or not my casual hookup actually has feelings for me.”— Melissa Moeller, thoughtcatalog.com
“We live in a world where people are afraid to feel anything genuine, or at the very least, are afraid to show it.”— Melissa Moeller, thoughtcatalog.com