Lionel Shriver Quotes

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

Love is an action verb, and romance is the result of those actions.

The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

Lovers are made by a kiss.

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

Only love itself can explain love and lovers.

All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any problem at all." "I don't think it's that simple." "Sure it is." "The earth moved," she said softly. "That has to be more than bodies communicating.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

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

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.