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Infatuation9 quotes
I wish you to know you have been the last dream of my soul. — Charles Dickens · 1859He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. — Leo Tolstoy · 1877I can't see anything that I don't like about you. Right now I can't. — Joel Barish · 2004Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language. — Gustave Flaubert · 1856My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820Jane, since I've met you, I've noticed things that I never knew were there before...birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights. — Lt. Frank Drebin · 1988All 9 quotes →Being in love3 quotes
My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820Jane, since I've met you, I've noticed things that I never knew were there before...birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights. — Lt. Frank Drebin · 1988She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J.D. Salinger · 1948Love2 quotes
Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language. — Gustave Flaubert · 1856She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J.D. Salinger · 1948Attraction1 quote
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. — Leo Tolstoy · 1877Crush1 quote
That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call 'em something else. — Jim Baker · 1984Dangers of love1 quote
That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call 'em something else. — Jim Baker · 1984Fading love1 quote
Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language. — Gustave Flaubert · 1856Falling in love1 quote
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. — Jane Austen · 1813New love1 quote
Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language. — Gustave Flaubert · 1856