The Magic of Found Objects

by Maddie Dawson

“Women like to feel you really see them,” I instructed him. “You have to listen without interrupting. And then ask questions. Also noticing her shoes will go a long way. And it should go without saying, no burping.”

men don’t love it when women are extra picky about ordering food in a restaurant,” he said to me. “Only allow yourself to badger the waiter about the origins of one ingredient per date. You do not need to see the late chicken’s vision board.”

the other day I actually found myself asking Google, ‘How do you fall in love?’” He shook his head. “Yeah? And what wisdom did the Google have to offer?” I shrugged. “Google said you can’t force it. That’s why it’s called falling.”

“I don’t think,” he says, “that I want to live in a world in which this isn’t the kind of love that really matters.”

“Everything always works out in the end. And if it didn’t work out yet, then it isn’t the end.”

sometimes we tell ourselves a little story, and we just hold on to it until it feels like it has to be true, and we can’t switch out of it.”