James Joyce Quotes

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.

I actually fall for guys when they're a bit all over me!

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

I'm not good for you. I don't know why you make me want you so bad. I was angry with myself when I said all that earlier. I was mad because I wanted you in a way I'd never experienced before. Before you, I just wanted to excel in football and school. I wanted my parents to be proud of me. But now, I want other things too. You get to me in a way I don't understand

My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.

I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It’s frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to feel you beneath my fingers. It’s as if you crawled into my head and my heart, even my body, and I can’t get you out.

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.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was human. I watched him walk through the hills and come back in the evening when his work was through. I saw things no woman would see: that he knew how to cry, that he was alone. I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was.

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

I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt

When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

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

I'm always after boys who don't want me, I'll tell you that much!

I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not.

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

There are people you are madly in love with and thought you could never live without, and suddenly you break up and think, 'What was I thinking?'.

When my friends in college had crushes, I used to think something is wrong with them. I just chill out.