Mohsin Hamid Quotes

I'm not in love, but I'm open to persuasion.

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

You can be cocky and confident, but when you start developing feelings for someone, suddenly your self-esteem drops a bit.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.

There's nothing better than that feeling of new chemistry when you're so into someone, and you could care less about what anyone else thinks... and there's butterflies! It's a real feeling that people experience.

Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

Just the notion of falling for someone, that involves weakness.

Some people associate red with love, but to me, red is for an earlier stage of a relationship. Black is much deeper, to me. It's certainly the sexiest color.

I'm not very good at dating.

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.

You fall in love with someone, you don't know this person yet, and you get to know this person. That's what happens when I fall in love with a character, and I want to be this person.

I learned so much about love from the movies. For a couple of hours, I would allow myself to dream about love and a life that, for me, ordinarily, felt out of reach. So, it was with deep gratitude that I watched the drama 'Call Me by Your Name,' knowing what a beautiful teacher it would be for boys like me.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

On its self-titled debut, Happy Birthday flirts with several flavors of love, and 'Girls FM' is where taste gets confusing.

Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you make me weak

I feel most sexy when I'm in love. My stomach flips. I get butterflies.

I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.” He closed the distance between them. “You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. “Why? Why am I the one?” “Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.

Did you know...you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight...and it's like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.

Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real you.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.