Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.

I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

You want to attach emotionally.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?

That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own heartbeat. It's times like that when I'm sure that I'm in love.

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

I have always enjoyed being a part of his life. I've always loved him, and he's always loved me.

Of course I know who you are. You're my girl. I love you.

Trust and trust alone should lead us to love

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

Come close to me baby. Let your love hold you. I know this world is crazy, but what's it without you?

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.

You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.

I want to be wherever you are.

I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

The secret ingredient to sex is love.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.