Holly Riordan

They aren’t going to go out of their way to meet new people, but once you become a part of their life, they aren’t going to let you go. They’re going to treat you like family.

He deserves a second chance if he shows you that he’s changed, that he’s ready for a serious relationship with you and is done with the games, done with the back and forth, done with playing the field.

Stay single until you decide that you deserve the best, that you shouldn’t settle for the first option that comes along.

“A guy admitted his friends murdered a homeless man while they were hanging out in pretty graphic detail.”

Life isn’t going to go your way just because you’re a good person. It’s going to be filled with hardships and adversity that you’ll struggle to survive — but you will survive.

“A guy who killed another person in a road rage incident and shot his dog. Strafed bullets across the windshield to scare the guy’s wife then went home and went to bed.”

You thought you were done with first dates and awkward conversations. You thought you had settled down with the person you were going to spend the rest of your days alongside.

Don’t let him back in your life, even though you feel like that song you heard or the fact that you ran into him is a sign that you should talk to him again.

A fuzzy video popped up, poor quality, caught from a street camera. A skinny guy in a red jacket was feeding his credit card to a machine at the gas station when four men surrounded him.

Writer: You’ve penned a story (or had a sick fantasy) about someone you hate dying a gruesome death.

“We all have demons inside us, voices that whisper we’re no good, that if we don’t make this promotion or ace that exam we’ll reveal to the world exactly what kind of worthless sacks of skin and sinew we really are.”

I ended up sharing a house with my cousin down in New Orleans. I didn’t want to leave the country, to spend too many hours cramped on a plane, so that’s where I picked. And that’s where he died.

Taurus: A plane crash. Not only would you hate feeling the plane dip and knowing that your life was about to end, but you would hate that other people are dying alongside you.

Stop staying up past 2 AM, thinking about the what ifs until you pass out. Stop torturing yourself with unnecessary thoughts. Stop stressing about tomorrow, because you deserve happiness today.

Date someone who holds your hand in public, introduces you as his girlfriend, changes his relationship status, and posts silly couple pictures on his profiles.

I might hyperventilate beforehand, I might cry myself to sleep the night before, but that doesn’t matter. All that matters is that there are going to be days when I have the energy to push myself to do something terrifying. There are going to be days when I silence my anxiety for long enough to really live.

He keeps liking your pictures, because it’s a low-key way to bring attention to himself. Because it doesn’t take any actual effort on his part. Because he knows that it’ll have you thinking about him all day long, even though he only thought about you for the two seconds it took to click the heart button.

She doesn’t want you to feel like you’re being ignored, like you don’t matter to her.