Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries, it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

M. SCOTT PECK
The Road Less Travelled, 1978




Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

MAL RICE CHEVALIER
News Summaries, July 17, 1955




He would have fallen in love with me, I think, if I had been built like Brunhilde and had a mustache and the mind of an Easter chick.

ANNI RIVERS SIDDONS
Hill Towns, 1993




When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life. And perhaps we are right.

MIGNON McLAUGHLIN
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963




Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

HELEN ROWLAND
A Guide to Men, 1922




To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

NANCY M ITFORD
quoted in Uncommon Scold by Abby Adams, 1989



I cannot fix on the hour, or the spat, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew I had begun.

JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice, 1813



If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure.

LYNDA BARRY
Big Ideas, 1983




Love can find an entrance, not only into an open heart, but also into a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept.

FRANCIS BACON
Essays, 1625