#dating

In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going to have sex. ↗

— John Lanchester

#men #relationships #sex #women #dating

I didn’t look at Thanet. I couldn’t because he would see the hurt on my face. “He loves you,” Thanet said. “He’s hurting and it’s not just the Quinn thing. It’s being away from you and wondering if you’re hurting, too. Or if you’re having too much fun to hurt. What he really needed was to laugh, though. So we laughed…until he cried.” That undid me. I looked at Thanet with so many questions on my lips. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#dating #family #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #high-school

His resonating stare fluttered through my memory, and I shivered. I hadn’t seen kindness in his pupils. I only saw intensity, and, I hated to admit it, but he was beyond intimidating. He was overwhelming. (Jessica) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#gaze #intensity #intimidating #love #overwhelming

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#dating #different #eager #expose #get

I have no wisdom to share on dating. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#i #share #wisdom

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#dating #directed #family #freak #i

If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#come #girlfriends #go #hang #looking

I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends. ↗

— David Gallagher

#dating #fun #i #little #pick

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist. ↗

— Richard Gere

#any #exist #honest #i #know

I don't entirely reject the idea of efficient markets. It needs updating. ↗