#crushes

An unarticulated crush is very different from an unrequited one, because at least with an unrequited crush you know what the hell you're doing, even if the other person isn't doing it back. An unarticulated crush is harder to grapple with, because it's a crush that you haven't even admitted to yourself. The romantic forces are all there -- you want to see him, you always notice him, you treat every word from him as if it weighs more than anyone else's. But you don't know why. You don't know that you're doing it. You'd follow him to the end of the earth without ever admitting that your feet were moving. ↗

— David Levithan

#relationships #romantic

I never have celebrity crushes. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#crushes #i #never

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #first #force #intoxicates #man

I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#crushes #find #i #intimate #relationships

I have crushes on women all the time. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#i #time #women

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#blood #crushes #globe #imperialism #like

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#crushes #develop #directors #i #i think

Never love someone beneath your level of evolution. If you want a monkey, you can visit one at your local zoo. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#humor #infatuation #love #relationships #humor

Her heart fluttered. It had only been a few hours, but it felt like a lifetime since she saw him last. She seriously felt addicted to that boy. ↗

— Julia Crane

#fairies #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #young-adult-fiction

But the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet and so sad. Surrounded by noisy bankers showing off, and their variously pushy or beady or anxious or competitive wives, she seemed to be from somewhere else; a place where people carried their own burdens; a grander and realer and more honourable place. Roger didn't know that Matya spent a lot of that evening thinking about home, but he could tell that she was thinking about something, and it was that other thing which, for him, did it. ↗

— John Lanchester

#crushes #desire #fancy #home #love