C. S. Lewis Quotes

The beauty of a relationship is when you get used to a person; it is not sudden. It is just a process, and you don't realise when love happens.

For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter’s position, ready to run.

Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

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 Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

True love is when you're cheating on a person but the thought of them still makes your eyes smile!

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

Kissing power is stronger than will power.

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

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

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

I like girls, but I prefer having a girlfriend. I like having someone I can spoil.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

I feel love for people that I have loved, and I think that's so beautiful, and I think that's such an important lesson for children that people can have disagreements but it doesn't mean one is bad and one is good.

In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

I don’t want you to just be my tutor. I want you to be the girl I look for in the halls every morning and save a seat for in the cafeteria. I want you to be the one waiting for me when I walk off the field at my games. I want you to be the one I pick up the phone to call just to make me smile.

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.