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Quotes About Infatuation

He was smoking hot. As in H-O-T-T, hott. I'd never understood until that moment why girls insisted on adding an extra t. This guy was extra-t-worthy.
~ Wendy Higgins
Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.)
~ Danish Proverb
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
~ Dave Matthews Band
and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
~ James Joyce
She was breathing hard, and deep circles of red burned high on her bright cheeks; in all my life I had never seen anyone so maddeningly beautiful as she was at that moment.
~ Donna Tartt
A moi. L'histoire d'une de mes folies.
~ Donna Tartt
The story is told of Lincoln's first meeting with Mary at a festive party. Captivated by her lively manner, intelligent face, clear blue eyes, and dimpled smile, Lincoln reportedly said, "I want to dance with you in the worst way." And, Mary laughingly told her cousin later that night, "he certainly did.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Your fascinating admirer waits here for you,' said Donovan, indicating a vacant and grass-grown lot at the corner. 'Yes, Matty dear, when you've gone to your virgin bed, he sits here, in his car, watching your room to make sure of your exclusive interest in him—the whole town's laughing its head off about it,' he added cruelly, and glanced swiftly sideways to see how she would take it.
~ Doris Lessing
I tell you that whatever infatuation you have fallen into, you cannot keep that man at your side. He belongs where he belongs and he will arrive there, no matter how deep you bury him. Best free him at once and save the heart ache.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.
~ Douglas Adams
Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again.
~ Douglas Preston
Because when you're in love, you think you're invincible. It blinds you. And you don't seem to care.
~ Agatha Christie
Lawrence arrossì, imbarazzato, poi sorrise. Un uomo innamorato è sempre uno spettacolo penoso.
~ Agatha Christie
Why did Juliet fall for Romeo? Well for one thing, with all due deference for Shakespeare, he happened to be the first man she had seen.
~ Agatha Christie
A man in love is an awful sight.
~ Agatha Christie
I fancied - of course it may have been only my fancy - that he looked slightly ill at ease. The company in which he found himself was, so I could imagine, little to his liking. He was a strictly conservative and somewhat reactionary young man - the kind of character to have stepped out of the Middle Ages by some regrettable mistake. His infatuation for the extremely modern Jane Wilkinson was one of those anachronistic jokes that Nature so loves to play.
~ Agatha Christie
wanted to be like her, and I would stop at nothing. Nothing at all, including sneaking into her closet and wearing her clothes like some tiny, creepy serial killer.
~ Aisha Tyler
When we are crushing on someone, they are a swirling blur of dimples and crooked smiles, hair flips and skateboard tricks.
~ Aisha Tyler
she had that teacher who got her into her poetry. She even talked about applying to a writing program. But then it became clear that it was all just a crush on an older man. It was always about men for her.
~ Alafair Burke
It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.
~ Mae Whitman
He who is infatuated with 'Man' leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.
~ Max Stirner
I've always been mad about cats.
~ Vivien Leigh