Paulo Coelho Quotes

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

When we grow up, we tend to forget our first crush, first love, as we move along. Only when you see something on TV or hear someone say something do you go back to those moments.

Why do we fall in love so easy, even when it's not right?

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encouragingly. “I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning…won’t help in my case,” says Peeta. “Why ever not?” says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “Because…because…she came here with me.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.

Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I'd be leaving my girl behind?

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

He was still in love with you, anyway.

Time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me, I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me. I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you, you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you

I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.