Instructions for Dancing

by Nicola Yoon

The book of love is long and boring No one can lift the damn thing It’s full of charts and facts and figures And instructions for dancing But I I love it when you read to me And you You can read me anything —The Magnetic Fields, “The Book of Love”

Almost nobody gets out of love alive. —Helen Fisher

That love stories are like fairy tales: you’re not meant to believe in them forever.

Given enough time, all love stories turn into heartbreak stories. Heartbreak = love + time.

“Today, I will introduce you to bachata. At beginning you will not be good. Some of you will be like clumsy newborn baby octopus, but by the end you will be better. You will see, I am fabulous instructor.”