Cody Delistraty

Indeed, if love is one’s end goal of life — if it is what will bring us happiness and banish loneliness — then why must it also be so dreadful?

Tucking yourself tightly under the covers so things can’t get you.

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don’t have to pay taxes — naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

The awkward glances, the slow hour-and-a-half you spend staring at a movie screen, inching – centimetering, really – your hand towards theirs.

It’s important to reflect on whether this person is “the one” because you’re madly, deeply in love and would do nearly anything to make them happy, or because they meet all your ideal requirements and fit into the perfect picture of your life.

“How to read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.”

I’ve never really understood the idea of straight girls going shopping with their gay best friend. I get that straight men generally aren’t keen to go shopping and gay men stereotypically are, but if she needs to look good for an upcoming date, I would think a straight girl would want a straight guy to help her out.

After taking an informal poll from American women, the three characteristics that came up most to describe French men are: sexually mature, worldly, intelligent.