James Salter Quotes

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.

I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall in love the same way twice. One type of relationship may be steady. Another may be fire and brimstone. Who is to say if one of these is better that the other? The deciding factor is how it all fits together. Your love, I mean, and your life.

Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women.

I've never grown into loving someone. It's, like, either right away or slowly sinks in.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.

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.

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

Brit: What's your major? Alex: Chemistry. And yours? Brit: Chemistry. Kiss me so we can see if we still have it. 'Cause you own my heart, my soul, and everything else in between.

It takes time for people to fall in love with you....but it’s inevitable

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

Let's face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it.

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings. History can sometimes be in the background, the thing which instead of rupturing your life merely irritates you by pressing itself now and then into the foreground.

I find that falling in love is way more fun than just having that instant attraction that you have to maintain for a relationship.

It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us.

Guys think of love as a feeling, which means that if you do something wrong you can still love somebody. So guys are constantly screwing up and then saying, "But I love you!" And girls have a different standard for love.