I’ve figured out the key to a relationship and how to make it work. Check it out. When you first meet somebody, you find out they like you first of all. You find out from a friend of a friend who says he or she really, really likes you and it kills you, floors you, sends you to the ground. You gotta pick yourself off the ground. Then you get their phone number and you call them up, right? Then you say, “Yeah, this is a great phone conversation can I see you sometime?” And they say, “I’d like that.” “I’d like that” makes you fall on the floor again. Your heart’s about to stop because of “I’d like that.” Nothing feels better than “I’d like that.” Now, you’re blood pressure’s going, you’re six feet off the ground, you can’t sleep because of “I’d like that.” So then you hang out for a while, and you call and you talk on the phone all the time, and then you drop the bomb, what feels like the bomb. You say, “You know what, I’ve been thinking about you a lot.” And they say, “I’ve been thinking about you too.” Bam! Higher to the sky. But now, “I’d like that”, done! Now you’re up to “I’m thinking about you.” Then, however number of months pass that make you feel comfortable, saying it, you say, “I gotta tell you something. I’m in love with you.” And nothing in the world sounds better than “I’m in love with you.” But now, what doesn’t work? “I’d like that” or “I’ve been thinking about you.” Then maybe someday, we’re up to “I love you.” Fast forward, and now you’re like, “I love you a lot. I love you more than anything in life.” Now, “I love you” doesn’t work. It’s a threshold that keeps moving up. Fast forward, like, six months, six weeks, whatever the case may be, now you’re on like, “I wanna marry you, I want to impregnate you with my love, I just want to send my love to you. Damn it, words don’t work anymore!” And then you say this line, and you know you’ve used this line before: “I just wish they’d put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn’t describe how I feel.” And so now, he or she starts asking, “Do you love me?” and you say “Of course I love you.” “Well say it.” Then it becomes “Say it twice. Say it three times.” Then, you cross a really interesting point where all of a sudden, it becomes, ‘I hate you.” And you go “She hates me!” And now it’s like “I hate you more than anything.” And then its like, “we’re over!” And the other one’s like “No we’re not!” “Yes we are!” Now the words completely do not work at all. You’re left with nothing. You’re throwing punches under water. You’re done. You know what the moral of that story is, if there is one? Never, ever, ever, underestimate the power of “I’d like that.
— John Mayer (via cdeas)
He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn’t have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he wanted it back.
— Truth (via thatkindofwoman)
I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers (via musingsinfemininity)
Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
— Chuck Klosterman (via bardsandsages)
