Alexandra Fuller Quotes

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

At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'

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.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

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.

I feel like until you're with the person, the person you end up marrying, you don't ever really know what you're looking for. I'm just into a girl with a really good personality, something that goes beyond looks. I want to be able to joke around, be respectful of each other... there are a lot of things that go into compatibility.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.

Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'

Finding the right person can be so hard that often, when a person finally finds someone she or he is comfortable with, she or he just makes it work.

You can't just turn love on and off.

In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything - besides my career - I'd be ambitious about love. Ambitious in the sense that I really hope to find true love.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.

Just because you have chemistry with someone doesn't mean you're naturally going to be the best for each other. You have make choices and prioritize.

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.