Richard LaGravenese Quotes

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.

'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

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

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 my generation is extremely cynical about love.

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

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

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

Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her that I lived in a dream. In the dream my heart seemed to be ready to burst, for it seemed that the whole world was inside it swelling to get out and be the world. But that summer came to an end. Time passed and nothing happened that we had felt so certain at one time would happen.

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.