Agalia Tan
- To find a good relationship, you do not start by saying, “I want a relationship that looks like this”—that would be starting in the wrong end, by defining form. Instead you say, “I’m just going to pay attention to what happens when I hang out with various people and iterate toward something that feels alive”—you start from the context.
from Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process by Henrik Karlsson
WePresent | Writer Roxane Gay’s 10 rules for loving and being loved well
- The entire question speaks to how good we’ve gotten at Hinge. Dating Intentions? Who has ‘dating intentions’??? You write poems about dating intentions or watch movies or wordlessly acknowledge them in bed with your girlfriend…you don't click a box!!!
Something can surprise us because it excites wonder, or because it is new or unexpected… Our soul often experiences pleasure when it feels something it cannot analyse, or when an object appears quite different from what it knows it to be.
— Kyle Chayka, Filterworld [pg. 50]
- A great relationship is not only finding the person you have fun with, but also finding the person you want to be bored with. The beauty of long-term relationships is often hidden in boring, ordinary moments.
from 3-2-1: The key to great relationships, the will to achieve, and beauty as a guiding principle
Sarah Kay performs "Table Games"
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Interwoven conversations among four friends explore the complexities and nuances of love, ranging from its beauty and joy to its darker and destructive manifestations.
- But that’s online dating, I’ve always thought: random and chaotic and terrible and weird and then — with time or patience — transformative.
from The Links guide to online dating
