Chris Cleave Quotes

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we're incredibly opinionated or we're not the sort of normal, polite, poised woman.

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Obviously, in my past, I had a quite wild relationship with Pamela Anderson.

I don't think I'm marriage material, to tell you the truth. I'd be a bad choice. But I'd be darling at being a girlfriend.

Every good love story is actually completely insane, completely mad.

I have always felt that just to show love, you don't have to make two people do intimate scenes. That is not the idea of 'I love you.'

Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts.

I don't think I am a traditional romantic who thinks about candlelight dinners and wonders if my husband is going to bring me flowers, though I'm delighted if he does. I'm more practical-minded. I find it incredibly romantic that my husband does the dishes.

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task.

Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, “Here I am!”

All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!

It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.

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.