Daniel Jones

"I’m constantly aware of lost opportunities. I used to think such lost opportunities were beautiful towns flashing by my train windows, but now I imagine they are lanterns from the past, casting light on what’s ahead." https://t.co/zw5CLUjRzJ

So true! ... From 20 years of 💕Modern Love💕, we have collected 20 "Words of Wisdom" like this one. Find the rest at ⬇️ https://t.co/QGw0I9RJtw https://t.co/Dv9DTAaBxV

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"I once moved 800 miles to a city where I had no job and didn’t know anyone besides my fiancé, a man with whom I had spent less than three weeks in person." https://t.co/3tY2DLBoBM

RT @nytimes: "I once moved 800 miles to a city where I had no job and didn’t know anyone besides my fiancé, a man with whom I had spent les…

“'What about Jeff?' [friends] would ask after I recounted yet another dating fiasco. 'Why not try and see?' Try, meaning what? Kiss him? Have sex with him? I shuddered at the thought. Jeff and I knew each other too well to be attracted to each other.” https://t.co/HRlrgGdWSy

"Every person deserves a Johnnie — for their first time or anytime or every time. Someone patient and kind who is willing to hold all of you. All your broken and beautiful pieces." @maria_bello https://t.co/u1G48wDZ9Y

"It would have been an average father-daughter spring break in Paris if not for that courtyard party we attended 13 years ago. The first time I saw Audrey there, I thought she was sexy. Turns out, my father did too." @AnaisLaRocca https://t.co/fbltr84lyR

"By 20, I was married. In a room alone before the wedding ceremony, I clawed at myself, but went through with it. I divorced at 28, but my pain drove me into relationships with men I didn’t want or even like."https://t.co/H634yrgmYs

"I was 24 when I started stripping.... My friend saw an ad on Craigslist, and not long after we found ourselves staggering half-naked down a smoky, strip-club hallway in high platform heels." https://t.co/6PfgPaiKH3

"For as long as I can remember, I have been told that romantic partnerships are the most important part of life.... Regardless of how full and rich the rest of your life may be, if you are not partnered, you are not complete." https://t.co/7ljtgZjy0T

RT @nytimes: "Being left for a younger woman is a time-honored tradition in my family," Kay Bloomberg writes in Modern Love. https://t.co/O…

"Being left for a younger woman is a time-honored tradition in my family." https://t.co/VlbjtCN8Ds

"It was there, as Austin watched me doggy paddle in his parents’ pool with a shower cap during a rainstorm, that he decided he wanted to marry me. He simply said, 'What would you say if I proposed?'" https://t.co/adbFoQg0GX

"The government knows that [my wife] has brown hair and brown eyes, though I don’t think they know just how beautiful those eyes are. They know she is 5-foot-3, but they don’t know, and never asked, just how perfectly her body molds into mine..." https://t.co/9SQr9xDm2Q

"I had checked religion as 'Extremely important,' and he had checked 'Not important at all.' As for dogs, he loved them, and I had grown up in a home where touching a dog required you to immediately wash your hands." https://t.co/Eowz1yysu3