#infatuation

I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I’m her knight in shinning armor. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#laugh

If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#desire #enigmatic #infatuation #love #relationships

Mr. Haverbink bowed deeply, muscles rippling all up and down his back, and lumbered from the room. Miss Hisselpenny sighed and fluttered her fan. "Ah, for the countryside, what scenery there abides..., " quoth she. Miss Tarabotti giggled. "Ivy, what a positively wicked thing to say. Bravo. ↗

— Gail Carriger

#flirting #infatuation #love #love

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you? ↗

— Cole Porter

#love #thrills #love

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#infatuation #love #love

One does silly things when one is twelve. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#infatuation #love #silly #youth #love

there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot ↗

— David Levithan

#infatuation #love #meetings #beauty

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

— Anthony Marais

#love #love-hurts #love

Every time he looked at me I felt like I'd touched my tongue to the tip of a battery. In art class I'd watch him lean back and listen and I was nothing but zing and tingle. After a while, the tingle turned to electricity, and when he asked me out my whole body amped to a level where technically I should have been dead. I had nothing in common with a sheddy like him, but a girl doesn't think straight when she's that close to electrocution. ↗

— Cath Crowley

#art

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. ↗

— George Eliot

#infatuation #life