Paulo Coelho Quotes

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it's because you are ready to fall in love.

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.

I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.

I knew I wanted to marry Liz the day I met her. Deep down I knew she was The One.

I remember the first time I fell in love. That rush is just overwhelming and you don't think there's ever going to be anything like it.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.

Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service

But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.

I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I'm madly, deeply, hopelessly in love.

You are the one, I think I'm in love... life has begun.

Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of what if when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.

I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

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

She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I'm supposed to say, much less how to speak at all." I test the words on my tongue. "I think I might be in love with her. But how can I really know, since the only love I've ever experienced was written for me?

True love always happens in a flash.