Crush Quotes

“Maybe a crush can be like a book you find at the library. First, you're drawn in by the cover. Then, you try to find out what it's about, so you read a little description on the jacket. Maybe, it's says exactly what you want to read, or maybe it's mysteriously vague and even more curious. Either way, you decide that you're going to choose this book knowing very little about it, but you have this excited feeling that if you dive in, you might be swept away.”
― Kelsey Hartwell, 11 Paper Hearts

“I live for my photography, but I will die to capture him in my camera.”
― Pratibha Malav, If Tomorrow Comes

“It was never a crush, if she's being honest, not since she started planning her mornings around a girl she didn't even know.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Sometimes the wonder over the object of a crush is indistinguishable from the simple relief that you are still able to leap into one at all.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

“When I say I have a crush on you, what I'm saying is that I'm in love with the distance between us. I'm not in love with you: I don't even know you. I'm in love with the escape that fantasizing about you promises.”
― Larissa Pham, Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy

“Ahhh, John Clark—totally dope. I’m simmering with curiosity about their romance. I guess that’s what people without romance do . . . wonder. It all started with him. Now, I die a little more every day. Only a fellow shipwrecked lover could possibly understand.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

“Funny how perfection can mean a million things. Tonight, it’s a boy and supermarket salads, the air tasting of salt and second chances, and a butterfly feeling in my chest.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Love had taken possession of Pablo’s soul, the kind of love that gnaws away at a person’s rationality, that has them stumbling over their words and leaves them frantic with desire.”
― Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

“To reduce, or even take away, at least temporarily, the power your crush has over you, remind yourself, when you see him or her, or his or her face, that he or she, too, defecates.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I was obsessed with him. I wasn't quite in love, nor was I simply harbouring a mild crush. I was never not thinking of him. Everything he said intrigued me, everything he did fascinated. I revered even the parts in him I knew cerebrally would have frustrated me were I not in such a foolheartedly, dreamy plight.”
― Tali Sara, Screaming into Pillows

“The first girl I dated was named Cammie Anthony. She was a year older than me. She had failed eleventh-grade calculus and had to take
it again with my class.
The specific chemicals that are released when we have a crush are called norepinephrine, dopamine, and endogenous opioids.
I remember Cammie reaching to hold my hand in a movie theater.
We went to see a horror movie, and it was unclear if we were going as friends or on a date.
Norepinephrine is what causes our bodies to have sweaty palms and increased heart rates.
I remember lying awake in my bed texting Cammie until three in the morning.
Dopamine is energizing; it makes us feel motivated and attentive.
I remember every time my phone pinged with a text from Cammie, I felt happy.
Endogenous opioids are part of our reward system. It's what makes having a crush feel enjoyable rather than just crushing.
Oxytocin and vasopressin are the chemicals that make us feel calm, secure, comfortable, and emotionally attached to long-term partners.”
― Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“The words had caught on the tip of her tongue, easy to summon but incredibly difficult to say.”
― kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

“It's a crush because it's not real. Not yet, not maybe ever. I'd be content to spend forever in this liminal, cresting place, the interval before we know each other.”
― Larissa Pham, Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy

“Humans are like filthy cockroaches. Even though you crush them under your heel, they never die out.”
― Suehiro Maruo, Ultra-Gash Inferno

“This Butterfly Stings by Stewart Stafford

The gold of my eye dances on stage for me,
Her wings wafting behind her in the chorus,
Yet none glimpsed that girl's beauty as I did,
This butterfly flew solo in my mind's eye.

For two years hence, I concealed my interest,
Yet I gazed at her endlessly, so close yet apart,
Places of learning changed, but she did not,
I foolishly let fly Cupid's token to my inamorata.

Seeing my love in a looking glass reflected,
Shadow feelings illuminated St Valentine's Eve,
My butterfly became a sullen stinging bee,
Crushing my tender rose in pieces at my feet.

Nor would her wicked scorn end there,
She told her friends who joined in my shaming,
For years after, turning my last shreds of adoration,
Into contemptuous hatred of her existence.

Truly no one can take away our memories,
Where my former crush still dances on occasion,
O sweet butterfly of my youth, one last wish,
Never fly away from these fond recollections.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The lower our self-esteem, the higher we climb the mountain of happiness, when we are complimented … or wanted.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“But you and I are sitting face-to-face. We’re real people. He isn’t operating on the level of a real person. He isn’t a real person to you. If he was a real person, you would have all kinds of opportunities to see the flaws in the situation—or to see that, as far as you’re concerned, he isn’t really there. Instead, because he exists as a series of messages, he’s always there, every time you turn on the computer. I bet you read those messages over and over, am I right?”

“Yes.”

“Of course you do. And he’s the ideal companion, because you get to fill in the blanks. Now I’m going to ask you a question and I want you to just think about it for a moment.” He paused. “What if this computer fellow had . . . bad breath?”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“meeting and falling in love with you, wasn't a mistake , but its something i regret ever doing again, its not your fault my love , i just cant deal with all your lovers , i feel used, i knew that you would never love me , but still, i loved you more then everyone else did, but you didn't love me... were still young , but i always want to be next to you , i always crave your touch , i'm sorry if sometimes i'm annoying sometimes, i just cant help but love you, and i promise i won't ever let you down, because in the end , all i wanted was you, and to be loved by you :) .”
― mercedes j

“—but I love you. I’m sorry I’m not sorry. I didn’t want to be—”

“Vanessa.”

“I don’t want to be someone’s number two or number three priority because sometimes I like to be greedy—”

“Van.”

“—but I can’t help how I feel. I’ve tried to stop, I swear. But I couldn’t.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“Love not with mere bod, but heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“It was a cruel invention -- this wheel…
A wheel that forced submission from those beneath it.
It continued to roll, as many people feared its power...and few challenged it.
But when too many are crushed, at some point that wheel will break.”
― Gabriel Wilson, The Broken Wheel

“Beauty is easily forgotten in the face of death, decrepitude, and general unpleasantness.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Whichwood

“So the crush withered and died the way things that aren't being fed usually do.”
― Michelle Tea, Valencia

“Yes. I'm doing okay." I finally tore my gaze from his and stared at the floor. He put his hand on my right shoulder and pulled me closer to him. My head leaned on his right shoulder.
And suddenly, I was tempted to sob, to let all my emotions out on his shoulder.
But I didn't. I wasn't going to let the boy I liked see me like that. Ever.”
― Bin Userkaf, Itchikan: 'til death do us part'

“Your ignorance proves my heart how much it had fallen for you and your appealing smile changes the frequency at which my heart responds, higher frequent.”
― Tarun Singh Thakur

“Man’s desire to crush another speaks of the primal nature of man when it chooses to weaponize itself in order to advance nothing but itself. But man’s desire to build another speaks of the Godly nature of man that chooses to weaponize itself through the sacrifice of self.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Drugyal tilted his head up and we gazed at each other again. He wasn’t smiling, he wasn’t frowning. He just stared at me with his lips shut as though he saw a phantom. I just couldn’t let out my words in front of him. It felt unhandy to be near him. To see his eyes and cheeks so close, I felt the little crush I had on him return in me.”
― Tshetrim Tharchen, A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars

“Love never cares about reputation, if it did it wouldn't be love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Everyone's on their own timeline when it comes to crushes. If you decide to enter the world of crushes, find friends that you trust so you can share your feelings and know those feelings will be respected.”
― Jessica Speer, Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised: Exploring the WEIRD Stuff from Gossip to Grades, Cliques to Crushes and Popularity to Peer Pressure

“I’ve said before that I’m pretty sure Joni knows I’m harboring a secret crush on one of the guys. In fact, she probably knows it’s Sam. She grew up with us, too. I'm sure she’s seen the way I act around him. Maybe she’s pretended not to notice in order to spare my feelings. But that would go against her God-given instincts to tell me what to do, which would probably be to forget Sam Morneau altogether.”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Boy Band