Lauren Kate Quotes

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.

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.

Love is never any better than the lover.

I can’t think. I can’t work or sleep. My body aches for you. I can make you want me again. Let me try.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

I think the whole concept of dating is deeply flawed, so maybe it's a good thing to be undateable. There's a difference between being unlovable and undateable.

Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

Love is a lot more complicated than people think.

You can have an intense connection to someone without being a good, lifelong mate for him. Love is complicated and difficult that way.

It's a hard business this dating business! Love is complicated!

Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.

When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change the meaning of what I've been raised on, which is fairy tales.

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.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.

And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.