Lily King Quotes

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

I love seeing love. I had this one girl that I was really tryna go hard with, but it wasn't it.

What had seemed like love was betrayal

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

nobody ever finds the one

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Love doesn't last.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.