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I actually think there are lots of good matches for each person, and they cross our paths all the time, but we’re so wedded to the idea of love at first sight that we can miss the really great people who don’t come with a thunderbolt attached.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz, You Should Have Known
She'll be really impressed if you take control and let her follow your lead.
— Auliq Ice
Whenever it comes to love, Remember the part about having confidence.
— Auliq Ice
Safe sex? Does such a thing exist?
— Garry Crystal, Leaving London
Once you've charmed a girl and prove how mature and independent you are, just ask her out.
— Auliq Ice
Because I had no awareness of who I was or what I needed, I found myself settling for a mediocre relationship rather than holding out for what was best.
— Debra Fileta, True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of your Life
When you make things too easy on someone, you’re giving them a discount on your worth.
— K.M.Docherty, ManHandling
I had to admit that I had a strong tendency to date jokers. I couldn’t say no to them. I would sit across from someone I was dating and try to imagine who in the entire world would date this nimrod other than me. But I always had to have a boyfriend. They distracted me from being sad. They baffled me with their stupidity. I refused to believe that finding love was difficult.
— Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
If a man tells you he's an asshole & that you deserve better, believe him...it's a warning. It's best you listen before he proves it to you.
— April Mae Monterrosa
One girl raved about a nice voicemail a guy had recently left her. I kindly requested she play it and heard this gem: 'Hey, Lydia. It's Sam. Just calling to say what's up. Gimme a ring when you get a chance.'THAT WAS IT.I pleaded to know what was so great about this. She sweetly recalled that 'he remembered my name, he said hi, and he told me to call him back.'Never mind the fact that what she described was the content of LITERALLY EVERY VOICE MAIL IN HISTORY. Name, hello, please call back. Not really a boatload of charm on display. To fail this test, a guy would have to leave a message that said: 'No greeting. This is man. I don't remember you. End communication.
— Aziz Ansari
If you cannot be yourself in a relationship, you no longer have one.
— Shya Kane, How to Have a Match Made in Heaven
Having fun is a pretty powerful way to start any serious relationship.
— Shya Kane, How to Have a Match Made in Heaven
It's kind of freaky to send your picture over the Internet to someone you don't really know and then have to sit waiting for their judgement on how you look. Maybe that's why my aunt Penny, who got divorced two years ago, hates online dating so much. Mom's always nagging her to go back on Match.com but Aunt Penny says she'd rather have root canal work - without anesthetic.
— Sarah Darer Littman, Want to Go Private?
The red flags are usually there, you just have to keep your eyes open wider than your heart.
— April Mae Monterrosa
A vast number of people bemoan the lack of love in their lives and one must wonder if it's because they're looking for a "type" or have a list of requirements that someone else has to meet first, in which case it's no wonder that they miss out, because when you love, it's not that all that you were looking for is found in another, it's that the person you love ends up making you see they are what you wanted all along; love, after all, is usually found in unforeseen places with the most unexpected people.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I have a strict moral code. I don't share penises with friends.
— Ann Everett, Two Wrongs Make a Right
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Some girls say that they are by themselves because men today don’t have anything to offer.
— Auliq Ice
Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt.
— Maggie Georgiana Young
Facebook is that successful guy you’re supposed to want to date, but you can’t keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.
— Jennifer Harrison, Write like no one is reading 2
Keep the first date brief, short, sweet and simple and they'll come back to you.
— Auliq Ice
Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.
— Rob Liano
I'm not the settling-down type, I'm afraid. I think I'm cursed with a touch of Dating ADD.
— Sherri Rifkin, LoveHampton
My non-negotiable list remains short. I want a man who loves God, others and me. That’s it. If he loves God, he will be kind and respectful and thoughtful. If he loves others, he will be a servant, generous and loyal. If he loves me, he will have a sense of humor (he’ll have no choice if he’s going to deal with me—after 20 blind dates), be responsible and romantic.
— Megan Carson, A Year of Blind Dates: A Single Girl's Search for "The One"
He’s so outta my league, we’re not even playing the same sport… He’s professional soccer in Europe and I’m intramural badminton in the States.
— Nicki Elson, Vibrizzio
Dear Miss Tremor. You are smart and kind and pretty. I think you have really excellent stuff under your clothes and I would like to see it, please. Let's go on a date and get married and you can be my rodent queen in my castle in the sewer. Love always and forever, --Mouse. P.S. I am sorry my rats ate some of your candy.
— Gail Simone, The Movement, Vol. 2: Fighting for the Future
I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available. I stay with him because I choose to everyday that I wake up, everyday that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
— Jessica Pan, Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults
Adolescence isn't about relationships, its about dating. Its suppose to be relaxed, and fun. Isn't that what being a teenager is all about?
— Raven Jayne
Whoever you choose to fall in love with, is an important decision of yours, but you better choose carefully 'Cause you're capable of anything. Of anything and everything.
— Auliq Ice
One o’ clock. With her fork she would tantalize the heart of an adoring artichoke, while her escort served himself up in the thick, dripping sentences of an enraptured man. Four o’clock: her little feet moving to melody, her face distinct in the crowd, her partner happy as a petted puppy and mad as the immemorial hatter…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
To fall in love is a legendary action that doesn't need any explanation.
— Auliq Ice
She leaned in, a tip she had read today on HuffPo’s Love & Sex section. Boobs out, smile wide, voice low. Being sexy was exhausting.
— Kate Meader, Playing with Fire
I wasn't good at this dating business. If that's what we were doing. I wasn't very good at predating either. I'd say I wasn't good at postdating, but I hadn't yet had an opportunity to prove it.
— Cassandra Page, Isla's Inheritance
Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street headed in one direction... nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
No man would ever want a girl who roams nude in a bar and drenches herself in bear on a slumber party.
— Farhan Shahjahan, Fragile
If your attached friends are bugging you about being single (favourite accusation: “You’re too picky!”) turn it around on them. “Do you know any gorgeous single men I could meet?” (This could backfire if they’re keen to set you up and their idea of “gorgeous” is vastly different from yours. And it will be.) Alternatively, be super-sweet and tell them you’re waiting for your ideal partner “just like you did”. (It won’t work if you snigger at this point.)
— Rosie Blythe, The Princess Guide to Life
Don't wait until it's too late to tell someone how much you love, how much you care.
— Auliq Ice
Can I speak to Sayvyer, please?”“You’re looking for the savior? At 1:15 a.m.?”“No. her name’s Sayvyer.”“There’s no savior here. Especially not at 1:15 a.m.
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
Recognize the difference between a dream and a nightmare, and date the man from your dreams, not your nightmares.
— Jenna Alatari
Uncommunicated expectations are the shame of relationships.
— Alafia Stewart
We’re in an a bit of an awkward situation. When the institution of marriage first came about, people commonly got married at around the same age that they began to develop feelings for the opposite sex. This is no longer the case. 13, 14 - these are no longer appropriate ages to be getting married. Now, you do not get married until you’re out of college, at least. If you get married any earlier, you’re looked down upon.So, what we have is a gap. A gap between when we begin to be attracted to the opposite sex, and when we’re allowed to give into that attraction. A gap between now and then. A fairly large gap, I might add. About a 10 or 12 year gap. I believe that dating was designed to bridge that gap.
— Cole Ryan, Dating: I Think We've Missed The Point
The opposite of lust is intentional, purposeful. The opposite of lust is longing for a ‘particular’ person – because while lust is looking to get, the opposite of lust is looking to give. The opposite of lust is choosing a certain person. The same person. Everyday.For the rest of your life.Despite what they have to offer.Now that’s romantic. The opposite of lust is waking up every morning and saying, “out of everyone else in this world, I choose you.” I choose you. Today, and everyday.I choose you not because you’re perfect for me and you meet all of my qualifications and conditions and because you make me feel loved and cared for. No. I choose you, because I know you’re a lot like me, and you’re going to fall short and mess up and you’re not always going to feel like loving me – but you’re going to want someone to stick around with you despite all that. I choose you, because I know Jesus loves you, and He doesn’t love you because He is impressed by you and He gets a warm feeling in His heart when He’s around you and you complete Him. He loves you so that you might become more like Him.This is a love that isn't dependent on us.
— Cole Ryan, Dating: I Think We've Missed The Point
And for another person to come along side us on our journey - for two messy, broken people to come together and say “I know your faults, I know you’re going to do some things I hate, I know the person you are now is not the person you want to be. However, I know the person you could become and I want to help you get there.” That’s what it’s all about.
— Cole Ryan, Dating: I Think We've Missed The Point
One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue. But as someone had pointed out to her in school, although the odds are good, the goods are odd.
— Maureen F. McHugh, After the Apocalypse
This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion.
— Diane Meier, The Season of Second Chances
Our simple daily decisions can become our best friend or our worst enemy. They can draw us towards our goals or send us orbiting into a galaxy far, far away. These are the days of our lives. We are offered choices every day; sickness or health, poverty or wealth, happiness or misery, knowledge or ignorance, to jump or to wait, to grow or to die, faith or doubt, for better or worse. Everything in your life exists because you made a series of decisions. Each decision, positive or negative, starts a behavior that over time becomes a habit. It is the little things that we put off doing that cumulatively make an enormous difference–in the end results.
— Mary Maina, The Proverbs 31 Lady: Unveiling Her Secrets Before Saying I Do
To The Lilies among Thistles, Just like a lily, a beautiful life does not just happen overnight. It is built daily through informed choices, commitment, faith and prayer. The journey towards becoming A Proverbs 31 Lady cannot therefore be taken lightly. It is a difficult, challenging journey filled with both laughter and tears, but a fulfilling one as you will soon find out. If you commit to becoming this woman just one day at a time, it will change not just your relationships but also your whole life.Consider it as a challenge, from one virtuous woman to the other.
— Mary Maina, The Proverbs 31 Lady: Unveiling Her Secrets Before Saying I Do
. . . none of us are as sophisticated in these matters as you think. You know I always feel, with every new person, as if I am starting anew. These things are instinctive. What you need to learn is to lay aside your inhibitions, to go back to your childhood when you played marbles or whatever with boys and never thought anything of it.
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
To win the hearts of beautiful creatures, your stories must always be told with a joyful face, full of sweetness and love, seen at a distance with kindness.
— Auliq Ice
Never develop any mysticism, about love; for love itself is a mystic thing that puts you in a mystic situation.
— Auliq Ice
You didn't date someone to change him. You dated him because you wanted him for the way he was. Flaws and fears and all.
— Jean Oram, Whiskey and Gumdrops
Porn mainly exists to satisfy the physical needs of men. Unfortunately many young men use porn to get educated about sex. But porn is not romance, lovemaking and about an emotional connection with their girlfriend, wife, or lover.
— Dr. Warren Shepell
If it's me who loves you, you'll know, as I will tell it you in my own words.
— Auliq Ice
Before you choose whom to love, take a look at yourself, choose your own word, think about how and reassess your time when you have given life to love, Know your ready or not and make sure you are not there to hurt making regrets on your door and paint the word I wish on your window.
— Auliq Ice
When love is new, it's brighter than the sun and 30 times as great as the force of the atomic bomb dropped and felt from your heart, but to some people it will slowly fade but to me it will always be the same.
— Auliq Ice
You will always be left with how you feel about other people, if you don't just take in the way you think and tell them how you feel about them.
— Auliq Ice
Finding the one who loves you is like lottery but you don't have to close up the page, just keep on searching and you'll find.
— Auliq Ice
It's hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You'll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others.
— Auliq Ice
Some say "fear even helps like; The flight or over love reaction but to me it is your loving heart to prove to prove it worthy.
— Auliq Ice
Some people have the innate ability to cheat artfully during dating, interview... Once they're in, they completely change and become different that they leave you wonder whether you have ever met them before.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Don't you understand how Cho's feeling at the moment?" [Hermione] asked."No," said Ron and Harry together.Hermione sighed and laid down her quill."Well, obviously, she's feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she's feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can't work out who she likes best. Then she'll be feeling guilty, thinking it's an insult to Cedric's memory to be kissing Harry at all, and she'll be worrying about what everyone else might say about her if she starts going out with Harry. And she probably can't work out what her feelings toward Harry are anyway, because he was the one who was with Cedric when Cedric died, so that's all very mixed up and painful. Oh, and she's afraid she's going to be thrown off the Ravenclaw Quidditch team because she's been flying so badly."A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode.""Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," said Hermione nastily, picking up her her quill again.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Katie, honey, you need a date for your sister’s wedding.”“I had a date, Mom. He’s marrying the bride.
— Susan Mallery, Sister of the Bride
Every rose has it's thorn, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with a ton of pricks.
— Kelly Rossi, Dating the Wrong Men
Don't date anyone you can't see yourself marrying.
— Turcois Ominek
Maybe I shouldn't scare off my date so quickly by shooting guns and telling stories about vomit, but, hey, the sooner he knows the real me, the better.
— Vicki Lesage, Confessions of a Paris Party Girl
When you end a chapter in your book of 'Wrong Men,' don't close the book of your love story, just turn the page.
— Kelly Rossi, Dating the Wrong Men
I may be taller than her on my knees. Does she need a man she can climb?
— Carol Maloney Scott, There Are No Men
A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.
— Megan Abbott, The Fever
For a moment she knew exactly what he was thinking, not just about Tom, but about her, and himself, and all of life, and she liked the way he saw things. She could spend her life tuning into the calming frequency of his thoughts.He wasn't a stiff, and he wasn't a weakling either. What was the word for it? Sensitive was the only one that came to mind, amazing as that was to consider; he was a sensitive man. He soaked up whatever you gave him.
— Matthew Thomas
Nobody special had come around to replace Duane, and she was moping, going to bed alone every night with a box of Velveeta and a fork.
— Laura McHugh, The Weight of Blood
That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts and book recommendations, joined them for dinner.
— Patry Francis, The Orphans of Race Point
Sometimes when you lose someone, it’s at that moment that you realize how much they mean to you. And when that happens, and when you think about how you let them slip away, you know you’d do anything just to have them there with you again.
— Jennifer Farwell, Rock Star's Girl
Tommy asks where Carolyn is."She's at Cindy's.""They live together now," Salvador added."Didn’t they just start dating?" Tommy asked.Tiger answered, "Yeah... A couple of WEEKS ago."Unhappy about the news, Tommy objects to Carolyn moving in with Cindy."That's how it happens in our WORLD," Salvador said. "One night you MEET, the next night you MOVE IN, and before you KNOW IT- you're digging a GRAVE IN THE BACK YARD FOR YOUR LOVER DURING A FREAK THUNDERSTORM.""THAT IS HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE," Tommy said.After Salvador apologizes, Tommy asks how Raven's doing in prison."Fucking GREAT." Tiger answered. "How do you THINK?""No longer on suicide watch?""NO... FUCK...""Speaking of fucking. Is he still with BULL DOG?""I REALLY don’t wanna TALK about RAVEN right now- AND WHO HE'S FUCKING. Talk about INAPPROPRIATE.
— Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love
An alien had given her his phone number and asked her to wait. It was almost like dating again.
— Nancy Kress, Yesterday's Kin
I remember the first time I fell in love. I held her hand in mine with not an interest to let go. I floated along lighter than I've ever felt. I kissed her hand as if she were my princess. There was a heart full of love and it was all for her. Every flower, every song, every cloud, every sunshine, every raindrop was a gift from heaven. For this angel had come to take my love. For the first time I felt love...
— Jason Micheal Ratliff
You could say we run a dating service. If you make a request, we can hook you up with some books that will take you on a date you will never forget.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
He won’t say no, but who cares if he does? Do it. Hell, guys go through this every time they make a move on a woman, and none of them has died yet. In many cases, that is, of course, unfortunate, but rejection is definitely not lethal. Go get him.
— Jennifer Crusie, Getting Rid Of Bradley
You don't fall in love, you grow in love...If you fallen love, you can fall out of it. We'll let love grow.
— Bethany Jett, The Cinderella Rule: A Young Woman's Guide to Happily Ever After
You're the sort of girl that should only have happiness, you know? Who should wake up smiling, feeling special because someone does everything they can to make that so.
— Lauren Cagliola Green, The Monsters
you see a nigga won't give a good girl shit yet he will spend his last dime trying to make a bad girl his bitch. He will go broke trying to trap some whore into a monogamous relationship
— Crystal Evans, Ten Things Your Mother Should Have Told You about Dating
Lauren realizes right then that the prospect of being single—of recent events leading to a divorce and her being a single mother with child support checks and the like—scares her to death. Dating itself is such a frightening, vulnerable time period, no matter what the circumstances. It sucks, really. She doesn’t want to go through all that again.
— Patrick Anderson Jr., Quarter Life Crisis
You could say we run a dating service. If you with some books that will take you on a date you will never forget.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
I want to be the guy in a movie who's, I don't know, out walking his rabbit on a leash (I don't have a rabbit) and knows exactly how to strike up a quirky, compelling conversation. Though maybe if you're walking a rabbit on a leash, you don't even have to speak; the rabbit does the work for you. Not that Zuzana seems like the rabbity type. Maybe if I were walking a fox on a leash. Or a hyena. Yeah, if I had a hyena, I'd probably never have to start a conversation again.Except for, "Sorry my hyena ate your leg.
— Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets
You hardly know me and yet you invited me out on a date,’ said Miss Dearheart. ‘Why?’Because you called me a phoney, Moist thought. You saw through me straight away. Because you didn’t nail my head to the door with your crossbow. Because you have no small talk. Because I’d like to get to know you better, even though it would be like smooching an ashtray. Because I wonder if you could put into the rest of your life the passion you put into smoking a cigarette. In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I’d like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart… well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better. I’d like to know as much about your soul as you know about mine…He said: ‘Because I hardly know you.’‘If it comes to that, I hardly know you, either,’ said Miss Dearheart.‘I’m rather banking on that,’ said Moist. This got a smile.‘Smooth answer. Slick. Where are we really eating tonight?
— Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Indeed, infatuation thrives on image (while love thrives on knowledge).
— Chana Levitan, I Only Want to Get Married Once: Dating Secrets for Getting It Right the First Time
She's wearing the same red and yellow BAM! T-shirt from before, which means (a) she slept in, (b) she owns several identical T-shirts, or (c) she's a cartoon character—all of which are appealing alternatives.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
It's all chop-change chop-change with you. Either go out with me and treat me nicely, or leave me alone. As I say, I am not interested in fuckwittage.
— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary
love either happens or it doesn't; there is no twice, thrice or more to it; it just happens once, only once.
— Lucy, Birds in the Sky
It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.
— Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
It's good netiquette to get to know someone in social media before giving out your phone number. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
... at thirty-two she had less dating experience than the average high school student.
— Lacey Alexander, Bad Girl by Night
Trust is something you have to practice. Someday you're going to fall in love with someone, and you need to understand what trust is all about. What you doing now is developing bad practices of betraying people's trust.
— Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
So anyway. If I let Corey take me out again, he’s got this buddy – Kyle maybe? Dunno – anyway, he’s single. Maybe you could come along and we could go doubles.”Lisa thought being involved in a shop class accident sounded more fun, but she managed a somewhat pleasant expression, or so she hoped. “Isn’t Kyle the one who spent a week in ICU after he tried to jump over a UPS truck with his bike?”“I think so. Why?”Lisa sighed. “If I have to explain it…
— Lauren Gilley, Made for Breaking
Don't become a grumpy old dater! Life ids for living, laughing and loving!Stop searching, start finding!
— Siggy Buckley, Next Time Lucky: Confessions Of Dating Guru
J: You will not believe what Mom is doing.M: Ballroom dancing lessons? Hot-air balloon classes?
— Kelly Bingham, Formerly Shark Girl
Frankly though, bud, your criteria for what constitutes a good date is kinda skewed, if you ask me. Homemade cookies are overrated man -- trust me on this. You can find a decent bakery just about anywhere you go.
— Susan Andersen, Baby, I'm Yours
It's proper netiquette to send a lot of messages to matches on internet dating websites. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Paul Chiles
Women are attracted to bad boys not because they want to fall in love… we just want to ride on the backs of their motor bikes.
— Dermot Davis, The Younger Man
You fall in love and it completely consumes you. So a part of you is broken when that's gone. And part of you wants to have that rebellious feeling where you're just like "Forget it- I can do anything i want" I've tried it and I've never been that girl. I'm always going to be the girl you want to take home to your parents, not for the night. 
— Selena Gómez
You know what you need?”“What?”“You need to think about what a badass bald man would do in this situation”“There are no badass bald men. By definition.”“What about Dwight D. Eisenhower?” Carlos suggested.“President Eisenhower?”“Doesn’t he qualify as a badass?” Carlos insisted.“Look, he may have been president, but he doesn’t exactly come to people’s minds when you ask them to think of a badass.”“All right. How about Kojak?” Carlos asked.“That police detective show with Telly Savalas?” Sammy asked.“Yeah, Kojak. He was a badass. Always cool under pressure.”“All right,” Sammy replied. “Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that Kojak was a bald badass. So what?’“So you have to imagine how Kojak would deal with this situation we have in front of us. He wouldn’t be worried about whether this girl digs bald guys. He would just walk right up to her, knowing that he’s a badass and just take care of business. You see, it’s all in the delivery.”“The delivery?”“Yeah, the execution
— Zack Love
Don’t you think it’s a bad sign that your best argument for your beau is that nothing has been proved in court?
— Lish McBride, Firebug
And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there’s always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is… Well, it’s just you. And when you go, it’s gone. Nothing abstract about it.
— Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked
It's a date, not a duty
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence ...
— Augustus Pitt Rivers
We get together with people because they’re the same or because they’re different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.
— Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked
Aves hasn’t mentioned a boyfriend,” Lock chimed in, “and we’re just dying to hear all about you.” Liar. My friends were filthy lying sadists.
— Lish McBride, Firebug
And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview that might decide whether or not they would own a common set of those items some time in the whimsical future.
— Vikram Seth
He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.
— Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked
Some relationships need an intermission while some require an ending.
— Renita Bryant, Yesterday Mourning
We kissed, and sparks went off in my chest. At the end of the night he said, ‘I know what you’re thinking. You’re wondering if I’ll call tomorrow. I’ll do better than that.’ He called me the minute I got home and we talked till I fell asleep. I was smitten.
— Gemma Burgess, The Dating Detox
You men deserve whatever rabbit-boiling scenario dating crazy women gets you.
— Rachel Hollis, Party Girl
The dating world makes me feel incredibly vulnerable. You put yourself out there earnestly as available only to encounter some of the most disingenuous people. There seems to be no formula. Just a boat load of anxiety. Did I do this right? Will he call? If I just say I like him, will it backfire because he will know he doesn't have to earn my time and attention anymore? How do people do this......Seriously.....how?
— Alafia Stewart
Some people will only value what they HAVE when it becomes what they HAD
— Renita Bryant, Yesterday Mourning
I try to hook you up every day. What's the point of calendars without dates?
— Lauren Kate, Teardrop:
His name is Tyson? I hate to break it to you, but you dated a brand of chicken.
— Gena Showalter, The Darkest Whisper
Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want.
— Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs
Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world.
— Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs
Do you like my brother?" And there goes Dan's confidence. He keeps his eyes resolutely on the field. "Uh... yes? I mean... I think everyone likes your brother, don't they?" She leans over and gives him a little hip check. "No, you know what I mean. Do you /like/ him?" Dan just states out at the horses, hoping that one of them will do something, anything, to distract this girl from her question. But the horses just keep grazing and Tat continues. "'Cause he likes you. I mean, he likes Jeff, too, but... you can like two people at once, right?" "Uh... yes? I think you can like two people at once." "Yeah. I know it's none of my business or whatever, but... I just wanted to make sure you know... if you like him, that's cool with me. I mean, I like Jeff too, but... you know." Dan has a brief moment of wanting to shake her. No, he /doesn't/ know. Is everything really so clear to everyone but him? Is he just adding extra complications where they don't need to be? Then he remembers that he's talking to a fifteen-year-old girl. Maybe she shouldn't be the arbiter of what's simple or complicated. He realizes that she's still waiting for a response from him. "Okay, well... thanks for letting me know." "Are you guys going to, like... date?""Sweet Jesus, Tat, I don't know!" Possibly that's a bit of an overreaction, but she looks more amused than upset. "All right, all right...." She gets a mischievous look in her eyes.
— Kate Sherwood, Dark Horse
God is after the bigger picture of your life. He is writing your story. I'm about to say something that may seem antithetical to this book, but need you to hear this: your story has far more to do with finding God's unique calling and purpose for your life than it does with finding the love of your life.
— Debra Fileta
He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can’t shine a sneaker.
— Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs
I recently heard a talk about identity in which the speaker said it's almost as though we are born into a world in which we are constantly being labeled by others -- our parents, our friends, our family, and people we don't even know. Each person, from the outside looking in, comes up with a label to slap onto us without our permission. Some labels are kind and some are truthful, but many of them are lies. And sometimes we leave the negative labels on so long that we believe what they say; we allow those labels to define us.
— Debra Fileta
Girlfriends aren’t allowed to care if you have Stilton socks. Friends are.” All the same, she gave her hands a quick, professional shake and took hold of my foot. “Plus, you might be less of a pain in the arse if you got more action.
— Tana French, In the Woods
The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.
— Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs
You never know what you're going to get with a pinball game," John said. "It's a lot like life. You can't control it, so you have to just roll with it and do the best you can. And if you do well enough, sometimes you get a bonus play.
— Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life
The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Sometimes a girl needs to be told what a guy feels, rather than trying to decipher the signs.
— Hilary Grossman, Dangled Carat
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
It is easier to lie to yourself than hear others tell you that tell you that you are a fool.
— Hilary Grossman, Dangled Carat
disappointment is devastating, even if it’s something that you didn’t really expect to occur.
— Hilary Grossman, Dangled Carat
When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.
— Jennifer Ott
A true champion of love and sport wears it proudly in all aspects of life.
— Jennifer Ott, Love and Handicapping
I've always had a thing for Carmyn Rafferty. She carries herself as a reserved and proper woman, but I see a tension in her. A slight glitch in some of her movements lets me know she's aching to be liberated. She wants to let go. In a way she never has. A way she's afraid to get too close to. Her boyfriend's obviously never been able to take her there.I could, though.Maybe that's what has always kept me drawn to her. She wouldn't just be another lay to me. I'd be breaking her in, kind of like taming a horse, but I'd be setting her free.
— Angeline Kace, Wicked Thing
Fellowship" is a Christianspeak for "flirt with unsuccessfully".
— Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Sabine used to maintain that preparation for a dance is comparable to what goes on in the back room of a butcher's shop: the meat for consumption is sliced and dressed and put in nice little paper packages, ready for the kitchen.
— A.P., Sabine
Maybe love is something we’re meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person earns.
— Jen Glantz
She kept reminding me she was at a wedding, which didn’t really help my emotional state, if you know what I mean.
— Hilary Grossman, Dangled Carat
A breakup is a loss to both parties
—  not only to he or she who is told that it’s over.
New Rule: You're never going to pick up women at a coffee shop pretending to be working on your laptop. You don't look like you're sensitive, you look like you're homeless.The last guy to pick up a chick with an Apple was Adam. And when you sit across from another dateless loser with a laptop, it still doesn't look like you're working--it looks like you're playing Battleship.
— Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
Women who do not play hard to get are hard to get.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
I understand we'll be attending your friend Miss Worthington's Christmas ball. Perhaps I'll find a suitable-- which is to say wealthy-- wife among the ladies attending."And perhaps they will run screaming for the convent.
— Libba Bray, Rebel Angels
Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Once a woman goes over 25, she prioritizes 'financial security' in a potential lover. Love and good looks are just a bonus.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most people can’t stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Dating isn't a natural need
—  it is a social want.
I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.
— Joyce Maynard, After Her
You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The phrase *You complete me* is nonsensical. A couple is a *we* … not a complete *me.*
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Those who say that money can’t buy you love make it sound as if love can buy you money.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Thursday, the-night-of-the-date, comes and goes, leaving a school bus tire track across Desi's heart, fear abrading her mind until she can think of nothing except what the future will be like if something develops between her dad and Libby.
— Sara  Stark, An Untold Want
If every lover was treated like they matter — everyday
—  valentine’s day wouldn’t be so 'special.
A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Be ashamed not of being single, or, unemployed. That comes standard.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A love triangle is a threesome delayed.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
First we must understand that all of the world's deceptions flow from the belief that love is primarily for the fulfillment and comfort of the self. The world poisons love by focusing first and foremost on meeting one's own needs.Christ taught that love is not for the fulfillment of the self but for the Glory of God and the food of others. True love is selfless. It gives
—  it sacrifices
A tomboy is a bisexual girl’s dream lover.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Generally, a woman would rather be married to any man that she doesn’t hate, than remain unmarried to a man that she loves.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A 'good man' is a male creature that survives the endless episodes that its woman spends complaining about women who she hates, and, women who hate her.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other’s vices.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Marriage and dating are man-made ideologies; if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, we’d all be born in pairs; as couples.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The right one for you will move mountains to be with you - he won't hide behind them.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. You're sizing people up to see if they're worth your time and attention, and they're doing the same to you. It's meritocracy applied to personal life, but there's no accountability. We submit ourselves to these intimate inspections and simultaneously inflict them on others and try to keep our psyches intact - to keep from becoming cold and callous - and we hope that at the end of it we wind up happier than our grandparents, who didn't spend this vast period of their lives, these prime years, so thoroughly alone, coldly and explicitly anatomized again and again.
— Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
[…] I have a date this afternoon." "Oh, Lord." Jake closed his eyes. "Who are you going to destroy now?""I beg your pardon?""The hotel would appreciate it if you'd just throw back the men you don't like without maiming them.""I haven't maimed anyone.""You almost drowned Lance, you scared Peter into heart palpitations, you stabbed Donald with a fork, and you hit Brad over the head with a bottle." Jake shook his head. "And they still ask you out.
— Jennifer Crusie, Manhunting
Sometimes the guy you think is too nice, is just the guy trying his hardest to love you.
— Stephan Labossiere
Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
Now, a month later, I sit, foggy, a similar state of mind, in a different seafood restaurant with a locals-know-every-secret bar, two happy hour martinis downed, fidgeting with my napkin below the lip of the table, and I barely hear Wendy ask me another question. She brought a bag of them tonight.
— Justin Bog, The Conversationalist
I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them.
— Meredith Schorr, A State of Jane
As I see it, dating is a product of our entertainment-driven, disposable-everything American culture...Love and romance became things people could solely enjoy for their recreational value.
— Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye Study Guide
Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more.
— Valerie J. Lewis Coleman, The Forbidden Secrets of the Goody Box: Relationship Advice That Your Father Didn't Tell You and Your Mother Didn't Know
Why do you have bungee cords back here?" she asked."I'm dating again.
— Maurice Pirelli
Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us.
— Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye
Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was . I wanted to please Him in my relationships even if it meant looking radical and foolish to other people - even if it meant kissing dating goodbye.
— Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye
We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.
— Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye
Be the man she can depend on, not the man that constantly lets her down.
— Stephan Labossiere
Every person is attractive to somebody. You are. I am. Jim Bob over there is, too. Every person is probably ugly to somebody, too. You are. I am. Jim Bob over there is, too. Don’t take it personally.And, we all need to do ourselves a favor. We need to believe people when they tell us we’re beautiful, handsome, sexy, attractive, hot, or hunkalicious, especially when that someone is somebody that we think is beautiful, handsome, sexy, attractive, hot, or babealicious.Because you know what? They probably really think so. They probably aren’t lying. They probably don’t give a damn that you don’t look like Pamela Anderson.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
...for Christians typical dating can often be a swerver - an approach to relationships that wants to go in a different direction than the one God has for us.
— Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye
Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off.
— Kate  Madison, Spilled Perfume: A Memoir
Well, the heart always holds out hope that the mind knows may not likely be met.
— Amy Sohn
It isn't you,' he says, as though you're to be comforted by the irrelevant role you play in your own life.
— Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn’t even finished moving out when she told me not to worry, because she already had someone better lined up for me. I was just lonely and desperate enough to endure a four-month celibate long distance relationship with a guy who read 15 chapters of the Bible and prayed for two hours every day and expected me to follow suit. He wanted to give our hypothetical children Bible names and for us to move to Korea to become missionaries.
— Kate  Madison, Spilled Perfume: A Memoir
All of the emotions that hit people at times like these, all of them, were coursing through us both like a secret we couldn’t tell. Because if we said everything we were thinking and feeling right then…if we laid it all out for one another…we might not like the way the words strung together. Or the way fear and hope and bitterness and love mashed up into one big mess in the pits of our stomachs.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass
In my mind, I saw a string stretching from Henry’s heart at Quiet Waters to my heart. It was taut and it vibrated with Henry’s worries and fears and I felt them all.Deeply. I felt them all.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass
I’m only saying what you won’t. He’s a hunk, admit it. A tall, dark, exotic hunk who wants to bed you, and you must be a fucking nun, because it’s been three weeks since you met him and you’re going to have to remove the cobwebs from your vagina with forceps soon, they’re growing into intelligent life form—
— Dianna Hardy, Cry Of The Wolf
Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.
— Caprice Crane
Mzatal gave a decisive nod. “I willmanage this. It cannot continue to interferewith his work. Too much is at stake.”I raised an eyebrow. “How do youintend to manage it?”“I will tell him the truth and outline theconsequences.”I was surprised Mzatal didn’t shrivelaway from the look I gave him. “Dude.Seriously? You expect him to stopcrushing on me because you forbid it?”Mzatal frowned, contemplative.“Perhaps not ideal given the entanglementof human emotions, though there is no timefor it to drag on,” he said, as if he actuallyknew what he was talking about. “If heknows you have no interest and sees howhis distractions have affected his work, hewill subside enough for now.”My withering look became glacial.“Boss, you’re completely awesome inmany ways, but you are so off-base withthis it’s not even funny.” I rolled my eyes.“I’ve already ramped ‘No Interest’ up toeleven on the dial and, at this point, hedoesn’t care if his work suffers.” I took abig gulp of coffee, then ran my fingersthrough my tangled hair. “Let me deal withit. Normally I’m not into directconfrontation with this sort of shit, butthere’s isn’t enough time for it to fizzle outon its own.”Mzatal regarded me with that damnedunreadable mask which he’d slipped on asI was talking. Great. Lords weren’t muchon being told they were wrong, but it hadto be said.
— Diana Rowland, Touch of the Demon
He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn’t done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.
— Kate Chisman, Creep
Dinner was served on mismatched plates with paper napkins and silverware that looked like it had been stolen from a school cafeteria. The spaghetti was from a box that was still poking out of the garbage pail, the sauce from a jar that was sitting beside the sink. I got the definite impression that he chose to make dinner because he couldn't afford to take me out.
— Arlene Schindler, The Last Place She'd Look