#love is

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#distorts #fall #illness #impossible #love

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#because #face #follows #just #like

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#connected #everything #life #love #love is

Love is a promise delivered already broken. ↗

— Steve Martin

#broken #delivered #love #love is #promise

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#actually #because #bit #different #enjoy

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#hard #hard thing #i #i think #love

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. ↗

— Kate Millett

#affords #circumstance #concept #emotional #exploit

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way. ↗

— Kate Millett

#bad #dead #likely #love #love is

Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book! ↗

— Claudia Christian

#book #come #come and go #cooking #depend

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#love is #thin