#infatuation

..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. ↗

— Jan Kjærstad

#love #madness #nuts #love

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years. ↗

— Alex Garland

#development

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion. ↗

— Sophie Jordan

#infatuation #simile #simile

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#college #comes #different #friends #i

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#evil #infatuation #violence

Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night; Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night... ↗

— William Shakespeare

#romeo-and-juliet #love

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. ↗

— Graham Greene

#love #love

And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#infatuation #love

You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time. ↗

— Teresa Lo

#infatuation #love #young-love #love

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