The relationship is all about what is happening inside of the soul and the mind, and the body doesn’t get in the way.

perhaps most saliently, many of our physical-world relationships are trapped in prisons of mediation

a world where the boundaries of cyberspace and meatspace are blurry

One person’s magic, however, is another person’s curse.

The real magic is that sometimes, if you’re lucky, the illusion is shared.

Just the desire for something and the human ability to will that something into their field of vision.

They’re romancing themselves.

I saw in her what I wanted to see. Real life gave me too much information.

only the internet, where you got to know people backward, soul-first