Caroline Paul Quotes

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

There is nothing you can control about love.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" someone in love sounds right.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

You don't really know who you're going to fall in love with at what time in their life. They can be the worst off they've ever been in their life, but you can't help who you fall in love with. That's part of the excitement of life - new people, new experiences.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

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.

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.