Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.

You can't control where your heart goes.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Love represents a lot of things. You can be in love with someone, you can be in love with something. You don't know why you love something so much, you just do. You gravitate towards it and then you figure it out later.

Reason is not what decides love.

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Love is something you fall into.

Sex is funny and love is serious.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

I don't think when I make love.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

I only cook when I'm in love.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.

We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.

Love just happens, you know.

Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.