“As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.”
More from John Green on Love
“Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
“She loves mysteries so much, she became one.”
“We all romanticize the people we adore.”
“…it argues that true love will triumph in the end (which may or may not be true) but if it’s a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have!”
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“From the moment I saw her I knew this onewas worththebroken heart.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
Rumi
14 quotes“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
John Donne
14 quotes“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
Balzac
13 quotes“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”