Alex Garland Quotes

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?

And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically.

A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?

Who does not believe his first passion eternal?

You cannot be in love with love.

I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.

You are the one, I think I'm in love... life has begun.

I had fun. That’s what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt.

When you get an idea and you fall in love with it there's not a whole lot of choice. You're going down a street and you meet this girl and you know it doesn't have to make any sense. Bingo! You're in love.

maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

Sometimes when you love people, you want to believe they're good.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.