“You can hide buried treasure or a winning poker hand, but you can’t hide the bloom of first love.”— David H. Goodman, Jerome Schwartz, Captain Hook, Colin O'Donoghue, imdb.com
“'Well, that's the thing,' she said, ‘your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to— it’s the first one who breaks it.'”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“You’ll always care about your first love. That doesn’t make you crazy, it just makes you human. When relationships end, it’s not so cut and dry. You carry everyone you’ve ever loved into every relationship thereafter.”— Ryan O’Connell, goodreads.com
“My first love was some insignificant boy when it should have been myself.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how and you become a person and why.”— John Green, amazon.com
“When I ask you about your first love I am always secretly hoping that you will say your own name. Now, wouldn’t that be beautiful – to above else have a heart that was proud of itself.”— Bianca Sparacino, twitter.com
“So many people are going to love you and it might be nice to meet your first love all intact, emotionally too. That’s an old-fashioned idea, isn’t it?”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Something was and wasn’t there between us, something went on and went away.”— Wisława Szymborska, newyorker.com
“People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps… Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What’s so sweet about that?”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.”— Nancy Werlin, amazon.com
“The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really want to love someone. But…for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“I’m not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what was wrong with me. What I was lacking.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen a…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge. It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb…It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for…”— Stephen Fry, bigthink.com
“People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps...Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“In second grade my second love wrote 'I love you' on a scrap of paper and dropped it on my desk as he passed by. He was very shy and sullen. When he moved to another school at the end of the term, I was heartsick. I thought about him all summer. But I learned then that we do outgrow people and our t…”— Jane Russell, amazon.com
“You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love.”— Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“The first time anything happens to you—your first love, your first success—the second one is never the same.”— Lauren Bacall, purpleclover.com
“The aftershocks of the first time last forever. One might take this as permission not to finish anything.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“If we were meant to be together, we would be together.”— Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein, Leo, Channing Tatum, amazon.com