Unrealistic Idealization Quotes

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.

The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genre, there are these cold, aloof guys. If you start thinking that's the ideal guy when you're 13, by the time you're 25, you're going to have had some seriously bad relationships.

The most dangerous thing a Bachelor or Bachelorette can do is zero in on someone early and just shut everybody and everything else out emotionally.