“The intimacy of…

Eye contact. Smirks across a crowded room. Raised eye-brows. Knowing glances. Witty banter. "I heard this song and thought of you." The sides of legs accidentally touching in the backseat. Dancing in front of strangers. Playful teas-ing. "I saved you a seat." Comfortable silences. Quiet time. Falling asleep together on the couch. "I'm so sorry." Hope. The little things. Inside jokes. Appreciation. Mutual trust. "You're my best friend." Crying in the car alone at a red light. Heart-to-hearts in dive bar bathrooms. Giving the benefit of the doubt. Giving a second chance. Giving in to a deep laugh. "I was literally just about to call you, too." Sharing books with your scribbles and notes throughout the margins. Losing your footing. "I never told another person that before." First hugs. A kiss you know will be your last. "I understand." A sense of safety. A feeling of alignment. Just knowing someone is here to stay, even though you have no real evidence for thinking so. Believing they will anyway.”

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Date someone who is interested in you. I don't mean someone who thinks you're cute or funny. I mean someone who wants to know every insignificant detail about you. Someone who wants to read every word you write. Someone who wants to hear every note of your favourite song, or watch every scene of your favourite movie. Someone who wants to find every scar on your body, and learn where they came from. Someone who wants to know your favourite brand of toothpaste, and which quotes resonate deep inside your bones when you hear them. There is a difference between attraction and interest. Find the person who wants to learn every aspect of who you are.

"I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brush her hair, wash her laundry, tuck her in goodnight.

Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know i deserve more."

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

“If we want gardens, we must become the gardeners. If we want love, we must be loving.

If we want change, we must alter our own course. If we want connection, we must reach.

If we want place, we must be steady. If we want home, we must nurture a house. If we want to love who we are, we must become who we most respect, and admire.”

“Because you deserve to get back just as much of the love you pour into the world.”

“If I touched you, if I kissed you limb by limb, I could teach you your body.”

"I'm not attracted to anyone who isn't excited about me. I want to be shown love consistently. I want to be shown off, celebrated, and reminded of my beauty. I don't want to surround myself around anyone who doesn't make me feel anything. I want my presence craved any time I go missing. I want my spirit full in return of me giving you everything. The way I love is everything but ordinary. The way my heart is set up - I fill people until I'm left empty. Unintentionally, I will shower you with all of me until I'm left with nothing. All I want is for someone to feel what I feel and love how I love - someone who's eager to give me mutuality - without me having to question whether or not they're meant for me."

“The sun is perfect and you woke this morning.

You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.”

“You deserve people who listen to you ramble. You deserve people who love it when you're excited, when you’re happy. You deserve people who check up on you and wish to see you well, people who not only accept you for who you are - but rejoice in it.”

“When was the last time that you’d been taken care of? When was the last time you’d let your walls down enough to even allow it?”

“Please do yourself a favour. Don’t lower your standards to fit in. Don’t shrink who you are to make others feel comfortable. Do find and surround yourself with people who like you just the way you are and who encourage you to keep growing.”

“Of all the love your soul craves, it craves yours the most.”

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is "You're safe with me" —that's intimacy.”

“Trust your process. Not the process you see other people going through. Your, process.”

“I used to think it was important to have common interests with the person that you are in a relationship with but now I think it is more important to be similar in other aspects. Like how kind you are. How you treat the people you care about, how you treat strangers. How you deal with anger. How you deal with pain. And not necessarily dealing with all these things the same way but being perceptive enough to understand what action each situation calls for.It's important for both people to be on the same page about what that action should be. It's important to me to have that kind of synchrony.”

- Naramdil