romantic obstacles Quotes

I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It's, like, first it's the flip-flops, and then it's the sweatpants...it's the gateway drug to no sex.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

One cannot always marry the person one loves.

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.