Quotes on Falling In Love

Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Never fall out of love with life

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Don't find love, let it find you. It's called falling in love because you don't force yourself to fall, you just do.

We leave a piece of ourselves and our magic in a person that we fall in love with.

I think I’ve developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

It seems the more I think about not sinning, the more I sin, but the more I think about just loving Jesus, the less I seem to sin. Falling in love seems to be the key.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.