My friend the Green M&M, on why she's tired of dating:

"Sometimes it feels like a game where I have to work hard to figure out what message the other person is sending or figure out what he's really tring to say. Is he going to put an arm around me? Should I let him? Do I kiss him when we say goodnight? And sometimes it doesn't feel like a game but a show - one I have to put on, one where I'm playing myself but not really, more of a better version of ourselves, the one with the new clothes and the new pair of shoes and the really nice perfume, and I know that's not bad, it's not bad to be a better version of yourself, but it can be so tiring to keep dressing up in so many ways and it can be so tiring just trying to think up of a really funny story or a really exciting story or a really clever story to keep the conversation going. Sometimes there are no exciting stories, just really simple ones. I went to the supermarket today or It started raining really hard all of a sudden in the afternoon or I didn't make the train on time. I'd like to be able to tell those stories to someone. I'd like to be comfortable. It just feels like we're all trying to be comfortable, to get past all of this and get to the point where we can be quiet and maybe a little boring but, you know, really happy."