Crushes Quotes

“An unarticulated crush is very different from an unrequited one, because at least with an unrequited crush you know what the hell you're doing, even if the other person isn't doing it back. An unarticulated crush is harder to grapple with, because it's a crush that you haven't even admitted to yourself. The romantic forces are all there -- you want to see him, you always notice him, you treat every word from him as if it weighs more than anyone else's. But you don't know why. You don't know that you're doing it. You'd follow him to the end of the earth without ever admitting that your feet were moving.”
― David Levithan, Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd

“If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is just enough for both of you to release the truth, so healing can occur. The opposite is true, as well. If you don’t have feelings for someone then never let another person suggest that you do. Protect your reputation and be responsible for the wrong information spread about you. Never allow anyone to live with a false belief or unfounded hope about you. An honorable person sets the record straight, so that person can move on with their life.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“my life is just waiting for you to get started.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“Some people will hate you for not loving them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“And it's a little different with every guy, so it's kind of hard to generalize—but if I had to describe the feeling of a crush, I'd say this: you just finished running a mile, and you have to throw up, and you're starving, but no food seems appealing, and your brain becomes fog, and you also have to pee. It's this close to intolerable. But I like it.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope.
"Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications.
Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away.
"Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--"
"What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.”
― Brandon Mull

“I was all like rawr and grr but then I smelled it again and it was him and it was all ka­boom!
I don’t even know! I don’t even know! You gotta smell him and then tell me why it’s all candy canes and pinecones and epic and awesome.”
― T.J. Klune, Wolfsong

“My mom believed that you make your own luck. Over the stove she had hung these old, maroon painted letters that spell out, “MANIFEST.” The idea being if you thought and dreamed about the way you wanted your life to be -- if you just envisioned it long enough, it would come into being.
But as hard as I had manifested Astrid Heyman with her hand in mine, her blue eyes gazing into mine, her lips whispering something wild and funny and outrageous in my ear, she had remained totally unaware of my existence. Truly, to even dream of dreaming about Astrid, for a guy like me, in my relatively low position on the social ladder of Cheyenne Mountain High, was idiotic. And with her a senior and me a junior? Forget it.
Astrid was just lit up with beauty: shining blonde ringlets, June sky blue eyes, slightly furrowed brow, always biting back a smile, champion diver on the swim team. Olympic level.
Hell, Astrid was Olympic level in every possible way.”
― Emmy Laybourne

“She and I, we were girls who never said anything. Never wanted to assume anything. It was a coping mechanism, saving our faces for when guys like Quin came along and acted all nice towards us.”
― Mina V. Esguerra, Interim Goddess of Love

“Frohike... had a long-standing crush on Dana Scully, but basically it was all talk. Mulder suspected Frohike would turn into a jittering mass of nerves if Scully ever consented to go out with him.”
― Kevin J. Anderson, Ruins

“A girl crush is different from being gay. A girl crush is like when one girl is so into another girl that it's almost sexual, but not quite. A girl crush is way creepier than being gay, which is not at all creepy and in fact is completely awesome, in case you were wondering.”
― Sara Benincasa, Great

“When he really, really likes a girl, he creates a font and names it after her.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“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

“He had a job that would forever consume his life, and that job didn’t have anything to do with Col’s blue eyes or the flowers that bloomed at his touch.”
― Molly Ringle, Sage and King

“Someone asked me, "Who hurt you so badly?" I replied, "my own expectations.”
― Shannon L. Alder, The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible: Spiritual Recovery from Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse

“I entertain myself with a never-ending daisy chain of crushes to fritter away my time and excess emotion. They pass through my hands as markers of moments in my life, almost indistinguishable from each other but valuable to me for the holding. I like my mind to be crowded with furniture, not empty with echoing footsteps.”
― Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

“Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight.”
― Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

“As far as he knows, nothing has changed between us. I was indifferent before, and if I’m going to brave the storm, I’ve got to muster those feelings back up again. At least until we get out of here tonight and I can find refuge in the pages of my diary.”
― Allyson Kennedy, The Crush

“When I think too much about Jace, I feel happy and sad at the same time.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“He wanted to prove to her, every step of the way, that she had been true through grace (through his every mistake), that she had great taste for once choosing him in the first place.”
― Criss Jami

“With Chloe
You can go anywhere
Or be anything
In an instant
Without even leaving your favorite bench
Chloe has a whole world in her
And she's so good at sharing it”
― Meg Grehan

“My current plan relies on proximity."

"And this plan is ..."

"To hang out with him until he caves and sleeps with me again. And then keep sleeping with him until he falls in love with me.”
― Lauren Forsythe, The Fixer Upper

“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

“When unrequited love dies it gets replaced with complete and utter contempt.”
― Shannon L. Alder, The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible

“I've had to dig the crush from myself, tucked away behind my final rib, deeper than the emotion I felt. Have had to slide my fingers through pulp and innards to pluck it out, (have been) gutted. I want to exhume it from my soul, too, but that's proving harder. How do I wring an intangible thing? I can't even find my soul with my hands, let alone rinse it and hang it out to dry. I want to see the crush drip drip to the ground, just as the water drips from my hair to the pavement now on the walk back to my car, toes purpled with cold.”
― Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

“I’m afraid my crushes are dangerous for me. Maybe my heart will lead me the wrong way, always. Back into something that’ll always end bad. Into the wrong waters, where I’ll drown.”
― Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater

“How do you “start” liking boys? I’ve always thought it was an unsettling idea: Something deep inside you, ticking down, unheard, until one day, ding! You go off like some kind of microwave.”
― Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

“This woman… this woman was her favorite. Crush, love, whatever.”
― R.R. Turock, Place of the War Horse

“You might have a crush on a rock star. You might have a crush on a teacher or your cousin or your friend's big brother.”
― Nancy Holyoke; Illustrator-Elisa Chavarri , A Smart Girl's Guide to Boys: Surviving Crushes, Staying True to Yourself & Other Stuff