Sometimes you don’t need plans. You just need to leave the house.
Being around people can be a need even when you don’t want to speak to any of them.
You can know everyone and still feel like you know no one.
FOMO isn’t always wanting to be invited. Sometimes it’s simply wanting to feel like you are participating in life.
A city can intensify parts of you that were already there.
The night gives you permission to become someone the daytime doesn’t quite allow.
Some of the best nights begin accidentally.
A good friend introduces people to each other instead of guarding them.
If you think two people might love each other, put them in the same room. It costs almost nothing.
Sometimes we give other people exactly what we once wished somebody had given us.
Friendship should feel like safety.
You don’t have to keep returning to places just because you once had extraordinary nights there.
Nostalgia can turn a place into something sad.
Growing up can mean accepting that not everybody has good intentions.
Being open-hearted is beautiful, but it doesn’t mean being unprotected.
Sometimes the real victory is refusing to let a place, person, or memory make you disappear.
Your style doesn’t have to remain consistent with the person other people think you are.
It is perfectly legitimate to do something simply because you want to be seen.
Not everything you try has to become successful to justify trying it.
Curiosity might be enough of a personality trait to build a life around.
Jenny Holzer, Heap (2012).
go outside
20 things I took from Gregorio about the night, other people, and refusing to stay home.
