Holly Riordan

What I want is someone unafraid of staying loyal, of settling down.

You need to remember your worth. You need to remind yourself of how much you have to give and how little you have gotten in return. 

Instead of focusing on finding someone who will love you back, focus on finding something that will make you love life.

It is senseless to pretend someone is good for me when they have proven multiple times to be a source of stress and anxiety.

Someone who would never leave when things get hard. Someone who is in it for the long haul.

I don’t know how you’re still single, because you are a catch.

You could get eight hours of sleep and you’d still feel like you stayed up all night. You could do nothing all day long and still feel exhausted.

He doesn’t want to date you. That’s why he keeps sending mixed signals. That’s why it takes him so long to answer texts. That’s why he always cancels plans.

You don’t need anyone else to make your life feel like it’s worth living, because you are strong enough to make it on your own — and you are smart enough to know that there is nothing wrong with being single.

Stay single until you are ready to commit. Until you are ready to hand your heart over to one girl. One girl who makes you feel at peace. One girl who makes you feel like you are important. One girl who makes you think of home as a person instead of a place.

In 2018, I am going to find happiness without you, without any man.

Maybe I am bitter. Maybe I am too immature to take the high road. Or maybe I’m too smart to put up with your bullshit for any longer.

Gemini: They enjoy seeing their family and spending quality time together and blah blah blah, but they hate emptying out their bank account in the process.

Wanting attention does not make you difficult to love. Needing quality time together does not make you difficult to love. Expecting someone to treat you as a priority instead of a backup plan does not make you difficult to love.

Gemini: You have to stop settling for almost relationships and calling it love. It’s not love when they won’t answer your texts. It’s not love when they keep canceling plans. In 2018, date someone who is as invested in the relationship as you are.

I prefer my personal space, I don’t like to be touched, so little acts of intimacy mean a lot to me.

Date someone you enjoy spending your time with, someone you count down the days until you see, someone you daydream about while you’re stuck in class because you would rather be with them. 

I am not going to lower my standards to make room for you in my life.