“The more people you meet and interact with, the more you gain awareness and discoveries about yourself. You will be able to sense the type of person you are looking for.”
“She doesn’t date. She understands how the dating arrangement works for other people, but finds the idea illogical for her own circumstances. Dates, as opposed to catching up with friends, assume that one is available and interested in some sort of a connection ranging from casual sex to marriage and including everything in between. Firstly, she doesn’t feel single. She doesn’t feel alone, and so the idea of searching for some person to fill a space doesn’t make sense to her. Secondly, she reads most people very quickly. The thought of dating a stranger in an awkward, draining, and undetermined situation to find out what sort of person they are, even though it is usually obvious, makes her cringe.”
“With Athena, I ve had four of her arms on me, and you peel them off and then the other four arms are on. I think we ve all been on dates like that, I observed.”
“You forgive the person and you endlessly rationalize and you forget... That there are other people out there, says Seb softly, and as he meets my eyes, I feel a sudden tightening in my stomach. Other people. What does he mean? Me? No, don t be stupid, I scold myself at once. Of course he doesn t mean me. He probably means, like, there are loads of people on Tinder.”
“Sensuality was meant to be a divine tool for your deepest love experience.”
“If you care about being desired, it means you care about being a sensual woman.”
“On the spiritual path, romance loses its worth. Romance implies that we need to be completed by another of a certain gender. And if we handle it correctly, we’ll supposedly get what we need. But when we are already complete, life and relationships become a whole different playing field.”
“If your relationship or life is not directed by your sensuality, it’s directed by your assumptions. And assumptions are nothing more than just playing a game of addition and subtraction.”
“By calling all men dogs, women unwittingly accuse almost all women of bestiality.”
“Dating is a big battlefield and proper planning becomes important to survive.”
“We can’t completely eliminate the chances of hiring somebody wrong. It is very much like dating.”
“At least at parties everybody knows somebody, there’s a semblance of vetting and community, friendship.”
“One of the things that distinguishes great marriages from good marriages is the degree to which appreciation trumps tolerance.”
“A bigger pool doesn t necessarily mean a better swim.”
“How puzzlingly fitting one can be, a couple of opposites. She was loud and fiery; he was quiet and cold. She always defended him verbally; he always defended her physically.”
“It’s not worth it to try to get under the skin of some jerky creep.”
“You can order up a date for New Year’s using GPS. Damn. There really is an app for everything now.”