--- title: "7 Assumed Love Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 7 Assumed Love quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Assumed Love sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/634/arundhati-roy-346_knew-married_she-had-never-before-met-a-man-who-spoke_685506.jpg" --- > [“She had never before met a man who spoke of the world—of what it was, and how it came to be, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/she-had-never-before-met-a-man-who-spoke-of-the-world-of-what-it-was/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/634/arundhati-roy-346_knew-married_she-had-never-before-met-a-man-who-spoke_685506.jpg) > [I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-gatiss/i-imagine-john-watson-thinks-love-s-a-mystery-to-me-but-the-chemistry/) [Mark Gatiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-gatiss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/191/mark-gatiss-10930_chemistry_i-imagine-john-watson-thinks-love-s-a-my_1501757.jpg) > [“Ned Parminter was in love. He assumed it must be love, because it felt like indigestion – or, to be frank, Irritable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-marr/ned-parminter-was-in-love-he-assumed-it-must-be-love-because-it-felt/) [Andrew Marr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-marr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/andrew-marr-9182_love_ned-parminter-was-in-love-he-assumed-it_1934395.png) > [“For the past year, Neil has assumed that love was like a liquid pouring into a vessel, and that the longer you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-levithan/for-the-past-year-neil-has-assumed-that-love-was-like-a-liquid/) [David Levithan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-levithan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c1/david-levithan-67_learn-to-appreciate_for-the-past-year-neil-has-assumed-that_2056432.jpg) > [“He's on the verge of it--we can tell. He is on the verge of finding that very hard truth--that it will never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-levithan/he-s-on-the-verge-of-it-we-can-tell-he-is-on-the-verge-of-finding/) [David Levithan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-levithan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/769/david-levithan-67_first-love_he-s-on-the-verge-of-it-we-can-tell-he-i_2196636.jpg) > [ “She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for \[him\] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/she-was-perhaps-too-young-to-realize-that-what-she-assumed-was-her/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/arundhati-roy-346_arundhati-roy_she-was-perhaps-too-young-to-realize-tha_2380487.png) > [“what she assumed was her love for Chacko was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/what-she-assumed-was-her-love-for-chacko-was-actually-a-tentative/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/924/arundhati-roy-346_love_what-she-assumed-was-her-love-for-chacko_2652848.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/assumed-love/#itemlist", "name": "Assumed Love Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“She had never before met a man who spoke of the world—of what it was, and how it came to be, or what he thought would become of it—in the way in which other men she knew discussed their jobs, their friends or their weekends at the beach. Being with Chacko made Margaret feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them—as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined. In the year she knew them, before they were married, she discovered a little magic in herself, and for a while felt like a blithe genie released from her lamp. 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