Jaime Kinsley

“One of the biggest challenges you face as you get older as a single person is resisting cynicism. It’s so, so hard not to feel betrayed and let down by love and turn that into nihilism, skepticism, or anger. But cynicism, while funny and self-protecting, is very easy. Finding trust, sustaining hope—that’s the real art form.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Be aware that abstinence will make you radically reevaluate what sex means. You’ll think about the physical act of it and reassess what an extraordinarily, magically, disgustingly intimate thing it is. You’ll lie in bed at night pondering it, trying to recall exactly what it feels like to be that close to someone and think: I cannot believe I once did that with a guy who wore a pastel-colored sweater tied round his neck in that old European man way and works in insurance and whose surname I don’t even know.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Online dating is for the brave. It’s increasingly hard to meet people in real life and those who take matters into their own hands—who pay a monthly fee for the chance to edge closer to love, who fill out an embarrassing profile saying they’re looking for a special someone to hold hands with in the supermarket—are towering romantic heroes.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Day by day, page by page, you uncover the answers that are already inside of you, and you begin to transform.”
― Suleika Jaouad, The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life