First Love Quotes

“First love comes and goes. It’s fickle in nature. They’re like the wind that sneaks up on you on a mid-summer’s day, only to leave before autumn sets in. It’s a transitional sort of love. It helps to prepare you for the next stage of your life. It exposes you to what love could be; but not necessarily, on what love should be or is. It gives you experience. Insight. A point of reference. And once gone, it leaves a lasting impression on you, along with sweet and bitter memories. But true love, that’s something else in its entirety. Unlike first love, true love has no time limits. It’s everlasting. It’s enduring. It comes out of the blue, but when it comes, it stays put. While first love might have been a traveling gust of wind, true love is the blossoming of a flower. It starts off as a seed, but in time, it grows to become something rare and beautiful. Something to be admired and cherished. But most importantly, it’s permanent, so long as you care and tend to it properly.”
― Kristina Stangl, Cupid's Serenade

“It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landing, magically on one's feet, intact and triumphant.”
― Nathan Hill, Wellness

“The Dance

there is a cloak of sorrow
wrapped about my heart
oh God, where is the dance?
and in the stillness
comes the slow dance
Christ makes my heart
His ballroom”
― Theresa Rough PhD, Sheer Bandages: A Fragile Offering: A person should not bury a talent-no matter how small.

“...but first love, I think it’s like a song, a stupid pop song that you hear and you think, well that is all I will ever want to listen to, it’s got everything, it’s clearly the greatest piece of music ever written, I need nothing else. ’Course we wouldn’t put it on now. We’re too hard and experienced and sophisticated. But when it comes on the radio, well, it’s still a good song.”
― David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow

“For me, love was nothing but a dialogue of little riddles, with no answers given. As for my spirit of admiration, I never even imagined it be a thing that required some sort of answer.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“The world stopped spinning. The wind paused in a spell of meditation. My heart sped past the sound barrier. The moment was so perfect that it couldn’t be contained by science. Magic shimmered all around us.”
― Lindsey Lanza, A Little Magic

“Love, when it comes for the first time, has the fierce and bewildering beat of spring in its pulses. Such ecstasy and despair are not to be reckoned with in terms of sanity and reason. The foolish and wise are equally at its mercy. Let no one doubt its power to exalt or betray, for it can rise renewed from bludgeonings or shrivel at a single breath. I think we were not meant to endure its rigours for more than a brief span.”
― Rachel Field, And Now Tomorrow

“Charlie harrumphed uncomfortably. “But what do you think about all this, Carlisle? I mean, they’re just teenagers. Isn’t this a little… intense?” Carlisle’s answering laugh was breezy. “Don’t you remember being seventeen?” “Not really, no.” Carlisle laughed again. “Do you remember the first time you fell in love?” Charlie was quiet for a minute. “Yeah, I do. Hard stuff to forget.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better. This discovery leaves me with an unsettling, queer sort of feeling in my chest for reasons I can't explain.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“So familiar, it begins with the first look and then
you're hooked and you can't stop looking

again and again and again across the
band room, butterflies erupting when he

catches you staring at him until you are
brave enough not to look away and he smiles...”
― Cheryl Seely Savage, We Have Time

“When I was seventeen and in full obedience to my heart’s most urgent commands, I stepped far from the pathway of normal life and in a moment’s time ruined everything I loved –– I loved so deeply, and when the love was interrupted, when the incorporeal body of love shrank back in terror and my own body was locked away, it was hard for others to believe that a life so new could suffer so irrevocably. --Endless Love”
― Scott Spencer

“It was at times like these that a man needed his mother to explain what this fuzzy, rough, squishy, hot, burning ice thing in his stomach was.”
― Renae Kaye, The Shearing Gun

“Girls liking boys is good practice to find out which ones not to marry later.”
― Melodie Ramone, Falls the Breath

“She often left him feeling like his hands were in the air trying to collect rain to drink.”
― Melodie Ramone, Falls the Breath

“But though she was the mistress of her own ways and no slave to any lamp save that of her own conscience, she had a weakness: she had fallen in love with George Amberson Minafer at first sight, and no matter how she disciplined herself, she had never been able to climb out. The thing had happened to her; that was all. George had looked just the way she had always wanted someone to look—the riskiest of all the moonshine ambushes wherein tricky romance snares credulous young love. But what was fatal to Lucy was that this thing having happened to her, she could not change it. No matter what she discovered in George’s nature she was unable to take away what she had given him; and though she could think differently about him, she could not feel differently about him, for she was one of those too faithful victims of glamour. When she managed to keep the picture of George away from her mind’s eye, she did well enough; but when she let him become visible, she could not choose but love what she disdained. She was a little angel who had fallen in love with high-handed Lucifer; quite an experience, and not apt to be soon succeeded by any falling in love with a tamer party—and the unhappy truth was that George did make better men seem tame.”
― Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

“Innan den stunden hade jag levt sexton år utan att veta att en röst kunde spela en hel symfoni på hjärtats strängar.”
― Callum Bloodworth, Berätta tre saker

“Now i know that some of those hidden pearls of truth exist but some are just empty shells that trap us.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“Nobody loves me,' I say.
'Somebody does.' Peter runs his hand down my back.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“I'm simply lost in that deep walled-off hole some of us go when searching for a savior.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“Peyton, you have to swim away. Trust me. It's hard, but you have to find the right direction and keep swimming until that line around your neck snaps.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“The moon lights the freckles sprinkled on her cheeks and nose like little blossoms in a field of snow.”
― Francois Keyser, Finding Us Again

“He looked at me with that look that told me he believed himself and because he believed himself, I should too. He was kind of crazy cute that way. Just crazy cute enough to do it too.”
― Francois Keyser, Finding Us Again

“She smiles. I haven't known her long but I have seen her smile before. Only those smiles weren't this smile... It's a smile that I'm responsible for. I want to give her more smiles like that.”
― Francois Keyser, Finding Us Again

“People called it heartbreak, but Evangeline thought that losing someone you loved broke more than just a heart. When she had lost her first love, it had shattered her entire world.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“And I remembered how it felt to be loved by him.”
― Ev Paxton, A Thousand Times

“Strange to know you’ll never again be with the kind of person who made you love first, their imprint inescapable.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“This sand dollar would join the others in the cricket box, the accumulated relics of our long walks together as the child grew within her. I did not need any proof that our system of currency was special, extraordinary, and rare. I was in love for the first time in my life, and that was proof enough to me.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“Your next relationship defines the last and the last relationship defines your next. Nothing defines your first relationship because nothing compares to it.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“So I won't tell her. Then when this is over, I'll cry my broken heart out into a case of beer and I'll make sure that one day I record that song. The one I said I reminded me of her. But that's not entirely true because I wrote it for her. I'll record it and one day when she's done college or even ten years from now, she'll hear it on the radio. Maybe then she'll think of me and what we were for awhile.”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation

“Even just this mundane thing feels like the best mundane thing that's ever happened to me.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You