#romantic love

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#begin #even #friendships #gay #last

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#good #love #love you #other #person

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test. ↗

— Joan Chen

#bring #extra #feel #god #help

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#distorts #fall #illness #impossible #love

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#actually #because #bit #different #enjoy

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. ↗

— Kate Millett

#affords #circumstance #concept #emotional #exploit

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#love #love you #other #person #real

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#after #become #beginning #essence #impossibility

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#filled #find #less #love #lust

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#deserving #desire #each #eyes #facade