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Quotes About Attraction

She realized even as she gazed that he was looking at her just as intently.
~ Mary Balogh
He has one of those smiles that have the strange effect of turning the beholder's knees weak.
~ Mary Balogh
Women like to be pursued. Women like occasionally to be caught without their chaperones. Now go to her.
~ Mary Balogh
You are a remarkably attractive woman, Elizabeth, and six years has been a long time. I should not say no to an invitation to your bed.
~ Mary Balogh
she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Do you know what made me fall in love with you? George asked suddenly. Anne shook her head, puzzled that he should ask her this now. I heard you laugh, down the hall, just before I got to Spanish class that first day. I couldn't see you. I just heard this fabulous laugh, like a whole octave, top to bottom. And I had to hear it again.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Faced with a boy I had a crush on—a bow-legged Missouri cowboy with the face and form of young Marlon Brando—I eagerly took the tequila his friend handed me. Forgoing lime and salt, I tucked my hair behind my ears and tossed back a shot. As that one went down like bleach, I was holding up my glass for another.
~ Mary Karr
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
~ Mary Lou Retton
This is what primate sex hormones do: "They make individuals perceive other individuals as more attractive than they'd normally perceive them." Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.
~ Mary Roach
Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos.
~ Mary Roach
heterosexuals failed to grasp that if you lost yourself in the tease—in the pleasure and power of turning someone on—that that could be as arousing as being teased and turned on oneself.
~ Mary Roach
Gravity is why there are suns and planets in the first place. It is practically God. In the beginning, the cosmos was nothing but empty space and vast clouds of gases. Eventually the gases cooled to the point where tiny grains coalesced. These grains would have spent eternity moving through space, ignoring each other, had gravitational attraction not brought them together. Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos.
~ Mary Roach
No man got an erection from looking at "brown string sandals.
~ Mary Roach
We cannot without depraving our minds endeavour to please a lover or husband but in proportion as he pleases us.
~ Mary Shelley
Literature and fiction are full of femmes fatales, but there is also an homme fatal, an altogether rarer bird, and pity help the lonely and impressionable female who comes within range of him.
~ Mary Stewart
this might be a beauty to send men mad. Her body was slight with a child's slenderness, but her breasts were full and pointed and her throat round as a lily stem. Her hair was rosy gold, streaming long and unbound over the golden-green robe. The large eyes that I remembered were gold-green too, liquid and clear as a stream running over mosses, and the small mouth lifted into a smile over kitten's teeth
~ Mary Stewart
Because of this. Because your funny. Because you know Lolita. And Nabukov and James Mason too. Because you're cute and funny and i'm kind of sad and you haven't tried hitting on me once. Because you weren't even trying...
~ Matt Fraction
You admire something about another person (intelligence, emotional intelligence, physical appearance, fame, etc.).
~ Matt Morris
If you are interested in someone, communicate it
~ Matt Morris
If it's a woman and you're attracted to her, be in the present moment and be curious about what she's doing or what she's drinking. Keep the conversation polite, because women are wary of strangers talking to them. Keep it nice and friendly. Women don't want to be pulled into a conversation they don't want to have. If
~ Matt Morris
Again, if it successfully opens, you can transition into a story to build more of a connection and establish rapport, since you know the attraction is already there.
~ Matt Morris
We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.
~ Matt Ridley
Why has that man fallen in love with that woman? Because she's pretty. Why does pretty matter? Because human beings are a mainly monogamous species and so males are choosy about their mates (as male chimpanzees are not); prettiness is an indication of youth and health, which are indications of fertility.
~ Matt Ridley
in the matter of choosing mates, males are usually after quantity and females after quality.
~ Matt Ridley