Jennifer Egan Quotes

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.

I fell in love at 18 when I was in college, and that's probably why I know what it's like to be in love, and I can express it in a better way.

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.

So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.

While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

Being in love is one of the most powerful experiences anyone can have. I think that's why we have crushes when we're younger. Maybe it's how we get ready for real love.

Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do so well.

I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.