Quotes About Infatuation

El deseo duplicado es amor y el amor duplicado es locura.

She was standing there all right. And I was in love with her. So much for the first glimpse.

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She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything...

It happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love.

He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.

He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.

A rigour passed over him, blood rose into his cheeks, his forehead, and there was a steady thumping in his ears. It was first love.

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

He felt that if he had a love he would have hung her picture just facing the tub so that, lost in the soothing steamings of the hot water, he might lie and look up at her and muse warmly and sensuously on her beauty.

And she wanted for a moment to hold and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears, his coat collar, wanted to surround him and engulf him…

Benjamin started; an almost chemical change seemed to dissolve and recompose the very elements of his body. A rigour passed over him, blood rose into his cheeks, his forehead, and there was a steady thumping in his ears. It was first love.

the heterogeneous indistinguishable mass of college boys, interested only in love at first sight,...

I broke a date for him. To-day I feel I'd break anything for him, including the ten commandments and my neck.

The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime

He was consumed with wonder by her presence.

Gatsby looked at Daisy in a way that every young girl wanted to be looked at

He stared at her, and the impression of her beauty grew until, uncommitted by a word, by even a formal introduction, he felt himself going out toward her, watching the turn of her lips and the shifting of her cheeks when she smiled.

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on a wall.