Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.

No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine and that obsession with one another for the very first time in your life, so it makes it that much more cute.

This thing we call love has always been tricky, and as beautiful as it can be, we can potentially lose ourselves in it.

Love is a brainworm.

‎Imprinting on someone is like... Like when you see her... Everything changes. All of a sudden, its not gravity holding you to the planet. It's her... Nothing else matters.

I'm trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.

"This isn't over," I said. "After everything we've been through, you don't get the right to brush me off. I'm not letting you off that easily." I wasn't sure if it was a threat, my last stab at defiance, or irrational words spoken straight from my splintered heart. "I want to protect you," Patch said quietly. He stood so close. All strength and heat and silent power. I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape. "But you didn't".

I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he'd go crazy if he didn't and had nearly waited too long.

i want to stay with you." it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him.

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature.

He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin.

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

You fall in love, and it completely consumes you.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.