“Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.”— Beth Kephart, amazon.com
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains—flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one — and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life. I'm totally enthralled by him. I want him, every part of him, and I desperately want him to feel the same way about me.”— Serena Grey, amazon.com
“Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary.”— Crystal Woods, amazon.com
“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling.”— Jess Rothenberg, amazon.com
“Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out.”— Jackie Collins, amazon.com
“Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soulmates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the scept…”— E.A. Bucchianeri, amazon.com
“You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”— Catherynne M. Valente, amazon.com
“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestl…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, goodreads.com
“One of the most blissful parts of falling in love is getting so close to someone that you feel as though you are almost merging.”— Grace Larson, vox.com
“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“You find yourself wanting to share experiences with your partner, rather than alone.”— Abigail Miller, hercampus.com
“You chat with him past midnight even though you know you’re gonna feel like a zombie the next day if you don’t get to bed, stat.”— Daniel Wallen, lifehack.org
“You make major purchases with them. If you are okay adding them to your credit card, or going in on a major purchase like a car or house, that means that you want to build a life together.”— Julie Keating, lovepanky.com