Jamie Varon

Life is not about creating the perfect circumstances, but is merely about how you are able to persevere beyond the wreckage of a life you thought you’d have.

Because, if there’s one thing that true intimacy demands it’s vulnerable, raw, uncomfortable honesty.

We will solve your entire life’s problems right now, right this moment.

If anyone is mad at you ever, even if it’s over the tiniest thing, it will grate on you for days and days and the sheer stress of it will drive you close to the brink of insanity.

We can be with someone and forget that the love that is there doesn’t actually chip away, that our heart doesn’t need regenerating because it was never broken.

Basically, you are not above overusing the wink emoji.

Drake understands weekends: “I live for the nights that I can’t remember, with the people that I won’t forget.”

A full day by yourself makes you feel more you than anything at all.

We can’t SPEAK TO A HUMAN ON THE PHONE? REALLY? Come on.

Oh my god do they have sangria here?! let’s get sangria! a pitcher of sangria, sir!

You will forever spend your life avoiding being “average” or “normal” because your only claim to fame in your family was that you were the offbeat one that had other redeeming qualities besides just being the one born first or last.

It’s very possible to be in a relationship and still sometimes feel very alone.

Whatever terrifies you, sorry, that’s the thing you have to do.

Every single day, we are defined by our choices. Nothing else. That is the only part of us that is true on a day to day basis.

Keep your body from falling into that energy depletion mode by eating before you’re hungry, not when you’re in starvation mode and want to stuff an entire all-you-can-eat buffet into your face.

If you’re fixated on the disappointment of love, you will see the disappointment around you.

At least once a week, you’re like, what’s the point of all of this and can I just live in a yurt somewhere?

When love becomes about what we can get out of it, we’ve already lost.