34 Quotes About Infatuation

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay. Gayle Forman

Where there is asakti [infatuation], there accusations cannot refrain from happening. That is indeed the nature of asakti [infatuation]. Dada Bhagwan

As long as parmanus (subatomic particles) match, there is oneness, and then it turns into revenge (vengeance). Wherever there is infatuation, there will indeed be revenge there. Dada Bhagwan

Carol was like a secret spreading through her. Highsmith

Dear Dick, I guess it's been a case of infatuation.. Mostly this infatuation-energy is about wanting to know someone.. Whereas the sex-infatuations that's male *you, Shake, the priest) leap out of nowhere, based on not knowing them at all. As if sex could provide the missing clues. Can it? In the cases of the males it's like I felt some kind of hint of who that person was floating under the surface. Wanting sex to realise things I knew. Chris Kraus

What's the matter?" you asked, seizing an idea. "Did I burst your balloon - destroy the fantasy?" I struggled for a way to answer this without my clothes.... Well his was very cruel, but loving you'd become a full-time job and I wasn't ready to be unemployed. Chris Kraus

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. Aphra Behn

For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means? Milan Kundera

Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness. Philip Zaleski

He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little. Colleen Chen

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time Ann Brashares

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. Mignon McLaughlin

They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen. Even in sensible school shoes, she shuffled as though barefoot, and the baggy apparel Mrs. Lisbon bought for her only increased her appeal, as though after undressing she had put on whatever was handy. In corduroys her thighs rubbed together, buzzing, and there was always at least one untidy marvel to unravel him: an untucked shirttail, a sock with a hole, a ripped seam showing underarm hair. She carted her books from class to class but never opened them. Her pens and pencils were as temporary as Cinderella's broom. When she smiled, her mouth showed too many teeth, but at night Trip Fontaine dreamed of being bitten by each one. Jeffrey Eugenides

I see you from afar–fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift John Geddes

I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home. Graham Greene

..he was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls. Unknown

Infatuation is like a drug that gives you the best high yet gives you the worst headache after. Luke Blaise Pereira

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain! Anthony Marais

As long as she is near or within his power to reach, he will be drawn to her, leaving less of him for others and that's why she had to leave. She knew, despite her own great desire, that there are consequences and responsibilities that are more important and life-altering than personal feelings. Donna Lynn Hope

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada. Unknown

Time didn’t heal my heal wounds but it lent me perspective. My vision was no longer clouded and I saw what I’d become. I’d let inspiration become obsession. Tunnel vision had hindered all progress. I was so fixated on you, I got stuck. Ashley Sarel

Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of your world, back and forth, back and forth, never letting up..You're appalled by the new appetites within you, kicking their feet and clawing to get out. Nikki Gemmell

You've invaded my mind and I can't get you out of it, " he accused with discernible disdain. She avoided looking at him and said, "Then you should forget." "Forget?" he thundered, " E V E R Y T H I N G reminds me of you! " She turned to confront him, slowing lifting her eyes to meet the disgust in his. "That's not my doing, " she countered, "That's your doing and you are the only one who can control it. Donna Lynn Hope