female companions + flowers

• “Would you like to come in for a nightcap?”
• “I don’t sleep with someone on the first date.”
• “I promise, I have a better track record than this.”
• “I don’t normally do blind dates, but [name] spoke very highly of you!”
• “This is my favorite place for first dates.”
• “So – do you want to get together again sometime soon?”
• “I’m not looking for anything serious.”
• “I don’t want the night to end.”
• “I think it’s best if we’re upfront about what we want right now.”
• “Wow, you don’t look anything like your picture online.”
• “It’s so great to finally meet you in person!”
• “I should probably tell you that I just got out of a long-term relationship.”
• “Want to come upstairs?”
• “I can walk you home, if you like.”
• “Walk me home?”
• “Let’s go dancing!”
• “Yeah, I don’t think we should do this again.”
• “This was fun and all, but I don’t see us working out.”
• “That movie sucked!”
• “I wasn’t sure you’d come.”
• “I was starting to think you’d stood me up.”
• “I’m done screwing around. I want a real relationship.”
• “It’s too early to call, but I have a good feeling about this.”
• “Let me get the check.”
• “Want to split the check?”
• “It’s nothing personal, I just don’t think we fit.”
• “This was the worst date of my life.”
• “Don’t call me again.”
• “Oh, God, my ex is here.”
• “That wasn’t exactly how I imagined our first date going.”
• “This was nice. Just a simple, sweet first date.”
• “What, no good night kiss?”
• “I don’t think I can date a Republican/Democrat.”
• “It’s important to me that I date someone within the faith.”
• “Want to play a game? Twenty Questions, or something?”
• “Trust me – don’t want to go there.”
• “We probably shouldn’t go there. My ex hangs out there sometimes and I think seeing them would kind of kill the mood.”
• “I don’t date much, to be honest.”
• “I hate to come on too strong, but I really, really like you.”
• “Can I kiss you?”
• “Why do you even like me? Is it the money?”
• “Look, I gotta be honest – you were rude to the waiter, and that’s a serious turn-off.”
• “Whoa! That’s off-limits until, like, the tenth date.”
• “Wow, you come on strong, don’t you?”
• “I’m not making the greatest impression right now, am I?”
• “Have you ever been here before?”
• “I’ve never been here before!”
• “I don’t normally meet up with people from Tinder/Grindr/OkCupid.”
• “Where do you see yourself in five years?”
• “That’s it! I’m leaving!”
• “Hey! You’re on this date with me, remember?”
• “I like you, but I think you’re hung up on your ex.”
• “You haven’t let me get a word in edgewise all night!”
• “Are you always this shy?”
• “So, what do you do for a living?”
• “Why did you even agree to go out with me?”
• “I think I’m in love with you.”

         ❝ It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything - love, convictions, faith, history - no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides on the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even in direct contact with, that border, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter. I crossed that border once, and I manage to make it back to the other side. I wish I didn’t. I wish I want to, because I now REMEMBER. And nothing’s as pleasant as it seemed to before.❞

Thanks, Jethro.