Eli Rallo > Quotes

“I love fearlessly and deeply. I am proud of how I love even though it fucks me over at least once a year. I love more than anyone could ever return to me and I know that to be true. The way I love has gotten me into trouble and into wonder. It has led me astray and walked me back home and told me “you’re doing the best you can.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“treat your friends like you would the love of your life—because it is when we water our friendships and see them grow that we realize the true meaning of love, and the true meaning of life.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“you are trying your best, you are so fucking interesting—and there are people out there who will get to know you one day, and call their mom and say, “she’s just incredible.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“Say yes to life. This is a moment for you to be fully, wholeheartedly, intentionally selfish.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“You don’t miss them, you miss the feeling they gave you.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“It is both heartbreaking and affirming to reflect on the lives we could’ve lived that we didn’t choose.”
― Eli Rallo, Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?: Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis

“My mother always used to tell me that insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results. I always ignored her because I knew she was right.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“Rejection and uncertainty are simply the universe’s way of telling you what is meant for you is still yours to discover.”
― Eli Rallo, Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?: Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis

“I once heard someone say, “You know you’re writing something good when your family hates it.”
― Eli Rallo, Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?: Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis

“It hurts more sometimes, to lose a friend—especially if and when you fought for that friend, and you fought for your relationship to work out.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“Sometimes the only plan you’ll have—for your whole life—is what you’re doing later that night. And that’s enough. Life is all one foot in front of the other”
― Eli Rallo, Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?: Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis

“love fearlessly and deeply. I am proud of how I love even though it fucks me over at least once a year. I love more than anyone could ever return to me and I know that to be true. The way I love has gotten me into trouble and into wonder. It has led me astray and walked me back home and told me “you’re doing the best you can.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“I see rejection as somehow equivalent to success—it isn’t always a yes or a no; it’s either a yes or a something else is meant for you.”
― Eli Rallo, Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?: Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis

“Though I unlearned his cell phone number and Starbucks order, the experience still hangs in the gallery of my life and it isn’t something I despise and it isn’t something I miss, either.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“Kissing is a handshake. It doesn’t have to be that deep and should be done liberally.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“This was our fleeting youth—we believed naively. This was our moment to not care, because caring would enter the picture at graduation.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“Will there ever be an age when I don’t overthink my Halloween costume?”
― Eli Rallo, Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?: Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis

“Your scripture during a talking stage: it is ALWAYS better to be single than in a relationship that doesn’t serve you.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

“Consider accepting that it is impossible to be behind anyone, because life is not a race or a competition.”
― Eli Rallo, Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?: Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis

“My typical rule of thumb is that if you’re at least a month in with someone—and you’ve gone on at least six dates—you’ve entered the “What are we?” territory. We should always remember that it takes roughly a month to form a habit, and this is vaguely the amount of time, then, that you’d need to deduce what you want with someone too.”
― Eli Rallo, I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating