Love Fantasy Quotes

I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'

It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.

I used to love the idea of being in love, even though I hadn't been in love before.

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

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me

It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.

That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.