Patricia Highsmith Quotes

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I really want to fall in love.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.

I find love from time to time.

People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

For me personally, everything is on a kiss.

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Romance is everything.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

We are wired to find love.

I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.

I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

Love is based on imagination.