1. Staring hypnotized at screens as you watch looping Vines & GIFs for a second, third, fourth, fiftieth time.

Sure, love is compromise, but love also means not being afraid to ask for what you were told was impossible. Love means being denied and saying, “More please.”

You’re never too old to start reading Harry Potter (or read it all over again).

You will always have a place in your heart for the boys who can play good music.

I want to be the type of person who’s too busy to be sad and lonely, so busy the sadness evaporates.

If you still think street harassment is flattery, or that anyone should feel lucky to have it happen, you just might be a lost cause.

By the time you realize it’s nearly August, everything has been a blur.

When you’re feeling down, here are some Mean Girls gifs to help get you through the day. October 3 is the official observance of Mean Girls Day, but let’s be…

Your crush just texted you to see what you’re doing, do you want to hang out. You’re so excited that you can’t even deal with breathing right now.

Did you know that you don’t know how to pronounce Theodore Geisel’s pen name?

Everyone is a grown up now, I thought. We can do grown up things! We can sit around and drink wine and discuss politics!

You are not afraid of being single, and aren’t eager to get into a relationship just for the sake of being in one.

Don’t stop at seeing it twice. See it as many times as you can.

The best friend anyone can have is a good chef.

So often, it’s just a reflex that we don’t even realize we’re engaging in.

It’s hard to find the right path, but the good news is that you don’t need to be on the right path, you just need to be on any path.

The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

Small talk is basically kryptonite for 20-somethings. At least, if it’s taking place IRL.

Godard said that to respond to a movie, we must make a better one, and that’s what Hughes has done here.

7. You have pictures of them saved to your phone and they don’t even have your number saved.

For sale: like-new engagement ring, barely worn, came right off her finger. Finger also for sale for the right offer.

Coming home from work to find my GF at the time, cleaning my apartment in a french maid outfit…

Oh my god.

Whether or not you love someone.

You are going to forgive him right away, because just hearing his voice again is the only thing you were looking for.

The girls used actual Wiccan rites.

She’s, like, totally swamped at work.

Do you like to learn? Of course you do. I don’t guarantee that these will change your life, but I’m pretty sure you’ll be happy knowing a random fact to,…

The best thing to do is to spill your beans, but do it in a way that people can’t recognize you.

I had been cheating on you long before I had sex with him. The nights where I stayed up talking to him were more fulfilling than the few texts you…

For so long, I told myself that things could never work out with her, because there was some key ingredient that the two of them did not have together –…

Don’t call that loser. Don’t pick up when he calls you. Don’t text him “thinking about you” when you’re drunk at two in the morning.

A bicep squeeze, a longing stare, even a full-on, up-and-down check out will be taken as a compliment. In this instance, we’re all for being objectified.

One of the worst pieces of career advice that I bet each of you has not only gotten but given is to “do what you love.” Forget that. It’s absurd.

What a crazy experiment.

Checking off the various books from your high school curriculum, and then, perhaps the “100 Greatest Books Ever Written” is the educational equivalent of skating to where the puck is…

A collection of men and women, famous and not, who have taken their own lives because of life.

3. You know you don’t really love them, but you’re holding on to the love they give.

It is humiliation, self-loathing, and endless questioning over why, exactly, you weren’t good enough.

One of the red flags I totally ignored in a past relationship is that I didn’t really like any of her friends. If you don’t like the people your SO…

How well did that mother eat when she was pregnant? How was this kid raised? What baggage am I also getting? No, we like to buy new things from accredited…

Sarah Palin never said “You can see Russia from my house.”

“Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. There are lots of mediocre things in life. Love shouldn’t be one of them.”

I gaze at the mirror to inspect my double chin and puffy cheeks. I imagine the conversations the people in my life have about me behind my back about how…

To overcome my reservations about walking the line between dating and prostitution, I told myself that any such concerns were the result of societal conditioning.

You’ve lost weight!

“I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow.”

I’ve often heard that people only start wanting you when they think that you don’t want them. It’s true; I’ve lived by it.

Is there anything worse than having sex with someone who is just laying there like a dead fish? Can you like wiggle your toes or maybe arch your back once…

What some call baggage, others call vital experience.