Teju Cole Quotes

What do any of us really know about love?

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

Don't know much, but I know I love you.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

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

Lovers are made by a kiss.

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Love makes a good eye squint.

In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other's eyes.

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

Only love itself can explain love and lovers.

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

Tonight, we will both discover, how friends turn into lovers, when I make love to you.

My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.

Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!