Cody Delistraty

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

While Miley opens this lyric with a seemingly feminist angle — “I’m a female rebel” — she quickly shifts tone, perhaps revealing the song’s satirical nature when she says that she has a “chipped a nail.”

That’s not to mention the community one finds among fellow readers. Even if you like Fitzgerald and another prefers Hemingway, you can still argue ideas and themes with thoughtful criticism, at a length and with depth that no other form of entertainment affords.

Light boots are hard, too, though, because you realize they may never be this light again.

Oh god, my hands were sweaty. She gave a polite smile, no doubt looking forward to washing her hands with no less than five pumps of soaps.

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.

He must be able to woo a woman and pay for an evening out, but because he is a gentleman, not because he expects it to be somehow perversely “repaid.”

“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.”

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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.

You’re less critical of yourself, less discerning about what you’re writing down, and you can therefore just let the ideas flow.

To be content like this is to have a Moment. But perhaps these Moments are merely dreams. This must be a dream, I thought.

The thing is though is that I’m 25, and I have enough money to buy any piece of Ikea furniture I want or any of the sweet gaming chairs that vibrate all crazy when you get shot and I can even order pizza — hell, three pizzas — whenever I feel like it because I’m absolutely killing it every day.

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

Now the male bond has its fair share of flirtatiousness too, but it’s the kind of flirtatiousness that doesn’t presage to sex. It’s more of a competitive spirit that would seem to divide, but with close male friends, instead binds together.

Don’t even think about taking the girl you love to Paris or Rome or London or somewhere beautiful and far away.

It’s a way to prove our masculinity and it’s just as biological as the sexual drive that led us to that woman in the first place. Essentially, it’s a way to say, I’m a more qualified mate than you.