A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
—Ingrid Bergman
Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you’ll regret and still, you do them.
—C.K. Kelly Martin in I Know It’s Over
We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we’re both thinking the same thing.
—Laurie Faria Stolarz in White Is for Magic
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
Music makes one feel so romantic—at least it always gets on one's nerves—which is the same thing nowadays.
—Oscar Wilde
All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.
—Aurora Rose Reynolds in Until Trevor
Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.
—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
—Anita Loos
In our society, we've become myopic and obsessive about one particular kind of love: dyadic love, which takes the form of romance, sex, marriage. As a result we end up asking all the wrong questions. Books about relationships talk about how to "get" the love you need, how to "keep" love, and so on. But the right question to ask is "How do I become a more loving human being?
—Sam Keen
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
—Oscar Wilde
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
—Stephen King
Sacrifice is romantic until the only payoff is a broken heart and endless pain.
—Deborah Bladon in CHANCE
I wasn't totally immune to the charms of the opposite sex, but I wasn't one of those romantic, swoony girls who had pink fluffy daydreams about falling in love.
—Gayle Forman in If I Stay
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
—Fran Lebowitz
Men always want to be a woman's first love—women like to be a man's last romance.
—Oscar Wilde