Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

Why do we fall in love so easy, even when it's not right?

Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless... and that's on a good day.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

A single smile from her could make his entire being burn. One touch from her hand and he was undone. It was terrifying to think of how much power this one person had over him. How one single gesture from her could affect him so profoundly. (Sin thinking about Kat)

I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.

You're my favorite mistake

We are all fools in love.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because they were his, like his terrified rage in the lift when they had first met, being wrapped in his arms in the cold well, being dazzled by his wonder at the woods and her home and her. Like being a child, awareness of him the morning chorus that woke her and the lullaby that sent her to sleep, his thoughts always her first and last song.I love you, Kami told him, and cut.

When you get an idea and you fall in love with it there's not a whole lot of choice. You're going down a street and you meet this girl and you know it doesn't have to make any sense. Bingo! You're in love.

She thought she kept seeing him because she wanted to see him," Macey explained. "Ooooh," Bex and Liz sighed together. "It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing," Macey went on like a doctor identifying a common side effect.

Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to those who love us.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

Love is something you fall into.

To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your heart clench with each thought? That, my friend, is love. And love enslaves us all, for you cannot have love without fear.

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.