Falling in love Quote by Ian McEwan

“The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love”

— Jane Austen

“It was like skimming through a novel without fully engaging with the story until a well-turned phrase or powerful bit of imagery snagged her…

— Karen Witemeyer

“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many…

— Robin McKinley

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“But she was half in love with chaos... With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders. You could…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“The egocentricity which motivated it was not that of the spoiled, but of the too little spoiled; the lonely. Had she been an artist…

— Ira Levin

“I've always longed to turn the last page of a romantic novel but it seems my life is destined to remain a book of…

— Michael Faudet

“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and…

— Terry Pratchett

“Much like books, she could tell how voiceless things had provided a brand of companionship more compatible to his nature than human friendship had…

— Kelly Creagh

“She had always experienced big, intense emotions here at Lover's Leap. Under this huge sky, surrounded by infinite beauty, she had grieved to the…

— Emily March

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional…

— Steven Erikson

“Sleepless nights, infinite random thoughts, Remembering those moments, he had much to say, an urge to talk to someone, to be cared, to be…

— self