Jack O'Brien Quotes

I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in one way or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive.

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

You - I don't think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That's something that everybody remembers, and it doesn't matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

A first love always occupies a special place.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

Everybody has their first love. I think it goes back to being in love with the idea of being in love. Everybody wants love, and your first love is special. You've never experienced anything like that. It's good to have a fond memory of it.

I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.

I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.

I was class VI or VII when I had a crush on a girl, and I thought this is the girl I'd marry. When you're so young, you are crestfallen when things don't turn out your way and think it's the end of the world.

For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.

As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.

What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.

Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty.

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

I was adored once too.

I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'

I know every child thinks of their mother as superwoman; I certainly did.