Marilyn Monroe Quotes

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

She was kind of in love with him.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.

But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.

I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.

Being in love doesn't mean loving.

You’re going to tell me that last night shouldn’t have happened.” No. I’m glad it happened. For too long, I’ve been telling myself that I could spend all this time with yo and flirt with you and not have it mean anything. It does mean something. You mean something to me. But I’m not in love with you.

He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

I stared at him in silence. There were so many things I wanted to say. Like, How could you think what I feel for you is only physical? or, Don't you know you're my best friend? and finally, Bones, I love-

The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.

I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.

I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.

I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn't mean I want to be in love with a woman.

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.

Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.

You can't be friends with someone who's in love with you if you don't love that person back the same way.