Julian Barnes Quotes

Just the notion of falling for someone, that involves weakness.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?

but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.

It's not a bad Thing to fall in Love.

Love wasn't a happening one decided on---to indulge or not, to partake or not. To feel or not. When it came, when it struck, the only decision left to make was how to respond---whether you embraced it, took it in, and made it a part of you, or whether you turned your back and let it die.

Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

Connection and love: We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

would you dare to love me?

Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug.

This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

I've been really lucky to have had my fair share of relationships over the years and experiences to draw from. But I would say that I generally am not the one doing the heartbreaking.

I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.