Gillian Bennette

I hope the men around me value these things and, more than that, I hope the women around me find a man who does.

You aren’t impressing or enchanting people by telling them that you are low-maintenance. You are privileging what you see as “masculinity” and assuming that women aren’t capable of possessing these certain traits.

I am the architect of my fridge; I and I alone choose its contents.

Compliments are lovely and I’m not trying to sound ungrateful or not flattered. I’m having trouble explaining this, but just know that when you turn a fun, humorous site into a place where you try to romance someone, it becomes a bit odd and sometimes off-putting.

The business section of H&M. The same goes for the fancy part of Forever 21. It’s not that I couldn’t spend $34.95 on a blazer, but where am I going to wear that?

If you have a photo with what looks to be your ex-girlfriend, What. Are. You. Thinking?

On a typical Friday night I am: getting into my pajamas if it takes my friends longer than 6 minutes to text me back with solid and enticing plans.

Do you own suede booties? One pair? Cool, that’s not gonna cut it.

Every once in a while, get on hours-long customer service calls. That will swallow up hours of your time with someone you don’t want to be talking to.

I think when I liked you, really like-liked you, I was delighted to have something that I needed. Something that lit my insides on fire. Now? Now I know I need to quit.

I will steal and wear your shirts in perhaps the most cliché form of relational demonstration there is. And you will love the way I look in them. It will wreck you.

Other songs on Goyte’s album. Sure, I could have Googled their names, but really, what’s the point?