Anita Shreve Quotes

To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.

I’ve always preferred having girlfriends to just seeing people.

Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

Dating is not only a wonderful time of life, but also a context for enormous spiritual and personal growth. You learn so much about yourself, others, God, love, spirituality, and life through dating. Done well, it can be fulfilling in and of itself. Done well, it can be one of the most fun and rewarding aspects of your life. Done well, it can lead to a good marriage.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

I think the whole concept of dating is deeply flawed, so maybe it's a good thing to be undateable. There's a difference between being unlovable and undateable.

I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery - a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of. I’m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what’s on my bedside table rather than what’s in my bed.

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel. When people first fall in love they're more willing to do this because they're still getting to know each other and dependency has not yet set in. As soon as it does, though, people often stop sharing their true feelings out of fear of loss.

Love and faith are both a search, a process, it doesn't stay the same; it comes and goes. In some people, it's asleep for a long time and then it wakes up as it evolves.

The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.

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

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.