Gillian Bennette

Sometimes, if you are the one doing the yearning, it helps to remember that you are idealizing them. You’re their friend, so you’re letting proximity intoxicate you.

When you say we should do this again sometime, she doesn’t respond with “totally.” But rather “Oh my god, yes!” or “I’d love to!”

4. You don’t have to read the books. You don’t even have to buy the books.

And in the meantime, you can continue to dazzle and entertain me and hold my attention like no one else. Even though I know on every single level that we are and always will be just friends.