Quotes About Infatuation

I'm just borrowing him––I don't want him to leave his wife. I'm glad he's married. Let someone else take care of him. It's the way he smells––the way married men smell. I can smell when a happily married man comes into a room, and they can smell me too, I think. So can the wives––that's why he has to take a shower when he leaves me.

He was seething inside with a new emotion. Nothing seemed very important anymore except the Princess. He was single-minded about her. He was enchanted. He was possessed. He was in love.

Still...you turn me on

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

Why, she would hang on him,As if increase of appetite had grownBy what it fed on.

one teenage girl who, during a lucid dream, "entered the body" of a boy whose attention she had been soliciting in vain. Once inside her love object's "body," she began to see things from his point of view. "I understood why he had been so reserved with me," she reported, "and I realized that he would never return my feelings." As a result, the girl was able to end a fruitless and disheartening infatuation.

I was so touched by her that, after fifteen minutes, I wanted to marry her and, after half an hour, I completely gave up the idea of snatching her purse.

She could be breathing fire and I wouldn't mind. 'You could be breathing fire and I wouldn't mind,' I say.

Real love includes romantic fascination but then moves on through conflict to commitment. It is not always pleasurable, but it is reliably enduring. Infatuation craves exhilaration as well as safety and security; love provides them through sustained trustworthiness.

New lovers tend to "lose their minds" and do all sorts of crazy things in the heat of the moment. One study showed that new lovers' brains have a lot in common with people on cocaine. Dopamine is sometimes called the "drug of desire." Too much dopamine, from being "high with excitement

I'm jealous, of course. He's got a rich, pretty debutante and all I've got is a stiffy for the little brunette with the curly hair out there.

Suddenly I can't think of anything except you!

Your eyes are so comely that I can't turn my eyes away.

Ver a graça de alguém é o fundamental, condição necessária para o enamoramento, o apaixonamento, o fraquinho e a incondicionalidade (...).

Pretty much everything about you gets me hot.

It is no longer a passion hidden in my heart: it is Venus herself fastened to her prey.

The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain.

Sense is apt to fly out of the window when a girl falls in love.

Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

The secret to falling in love so fast, of course, is not to know the person at all. You just need to identify one exciting feature about them, and then you hurl your heart at that one feature, with full force, trusting that this will be enough of a foundation for lasting devotion.

So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

She was paying me the compliment of her undivided attention, and thus I was instantly smitten.

I realize now that I always needed somebody to be infatuated with when I was twenty years old, and it didn't really matter who, apparently. Anybody with more charisma than me would do the trick. I was so unformulated as a human being, so unsteady in myself, that I was constantly grasping for attachment to another person - constantly anchoring myself to someone else's allure.