Quotes About Romance

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love

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

Some young ladies meet a man and from there it is all plain sailing, but this is not the usual way it happens.

You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

But losing weight for health reasons is a very dull prospect, doomed at the outset. Losing weight for romance, that's altogether different.

Love begins as a rhapsody and ends as a dirge.

it had been longer ago than last Thanksgiving that she'd experienced the perspiration thing. A quick tally told her just how long, and she suddenly realized why she was suddenly so preoccupied with breathless, aching, ferocious, insistent, sweaty, wanton, ah… that feeling a woman should probably have for a man with whom she intended to spend the rest of her life.

That had been last Thanksgiving. And it had been longer ago than last Thanksgiving that she'd experienced the perspiration thing. A quick tally told her just how long, and she suddenly realized why she was suddenly so preoccupied with breathless, aching, ferocious, insistent, sweaty, wanton, ah…that feeling a woman should probably have for a man with whom she intended to spend the rest of her life.

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities.

You fell in love with me?

I'll never stop wanting to kiss you, he whispered.

Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.

Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love

This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

You love new boyfriend? I think so. Yes. Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.

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.

Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.

We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

he was still my romantic hero and I was still his living dream

how could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it? Reunited with fresh hopes, we'd share a few deliriously happy days together. Or sometimes even weeks.

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