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Quotes About Attraction

I think we conjure up and invent people, and then whoever happens to be there is the recipient of our imagination. A good deal of the attraction between people, I think, is based on the fact that one is able to absorb the creation
~ Dorothea Lange
She blushed. I love it when women blush, especially those big butch girls who know you want them. And I wanted her. I did. I wanted her. But she was a difficult woman, wouldn't let me give her a backrub, read her palm, or sew up the tear in her jeans—all those ritual techniques Southern femmes have employed in the seduction of innocent butch girls.
~ Dorothy Allison
I'm sorry,' said Jerott, his eyes elsewhere. What was the attraction here, in God's name? Not the little woman in the stained gown, surely? Or the plain fourteen-year-old who had been so courageous the night Trotty died?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
It's true? You have no interest in him? But everyone either abominates Francis Crawford or longs to possess him. I wonder why you alone should be immune.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
How nice to go through life being male, pretty and wanted.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Yet no woman had ever so stirred his blood; she had only to look or speak to make the very bones shake in his body.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
~ Dorothy Parker
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
love can be the most enthralling of demons. 3
~ Douglas Clegg
Someone is writing a poem. Words are being set down in a force field. It's as if the words themselves have magnetic charges; they veer together or in polarity, they swerve against each other.
~ Adrienne Rich
Falling in love is so hard on the knees.
~ Aerosmith
It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.
~ Agatha Christie
Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!
~ Agatha Christie
They knew, none better, the havoc caused by a good-looking young man to the hearts of adolescent girls.
~ Agatha Christie
Don't pretend to come out of the ark, Len. You know very well that an attractive young woman with an elderly husband is a kind of gift from heaven to a young man.
~ 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
Every man has his own way of courting the female sex. I should not, myself, choose to do it with photographs of spleens, diseased or otherwise.
~ Agatha Christie
Yes, yes, I know that. But why did you fall in love with him? What attracted you to him so much?" She crinkled her eyes as though trying to see through the eyes of a girl now dead.
~ Agatha Christie
Une qui aime et un qui se laisse aimer.
~ Agatha Christie
How can it be that a set of the shoulders, the rhythm of a stride, the shadow of a strand of hair falling on a forehead can cause the tides of the heart to ebb and to flow?
~ Ahdaf Soueif
How can it be that a set of shoulders, the rhythm of a stride, the shadow of a strand of hair falling on a forehead can cause the tides of the heart to ebb and to flow?
~ Ahdaf Soueif
I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.
~ Ai Yazawa
Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. The kind of intelligence that's more attractive than physical beauty.
~ Aidan Chambers