Lee Child Quotes

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

When you fall in love with favourite movie stars, it's not because they're movie stars and unattainable, but because they show you sides of themselves that are extremely personal.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.

Used to do a lot of falling in love with people, almost in the street, and imagining that there would be no obstacle to a happy love story other than finding the 'right person'.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

I think that people have this unrealistic expectation that people are just supposed to love them. I'm sorry to break it you, but ain't nobody supposed to do nothing.

The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.