Don't Be In Love Quotes

“Women really aren’t all that complicated. We’re just overthinkers.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“There was something beautiful about falling in love with the uncertainty of life.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“For the ones who deserve to be loved but haven't. Just hold on. It'll come.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“I hated how much I had her memorized.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“I prefer you in every room.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“There was something cruel about your parents deciding to bring you into the world, and just choosing not to be with you in it.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“It’s love. Everything about love is embarrassing. You’re pining over someone who’s across the room hardly thinking of you. That’s incredibly embarrassing. But I also think there’s something romantic about being secretly fond of someone in a way that only you know.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“You can’t just make me fall in love with you and take it all back,” I whispered. “Say something. Please.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“I am not going to waste my—already—minimal time getting romantically involved with a man who will be interested in me for approximately four weeks before he gets bored,” and finds another girl, and takes all of my favorite places to eat, my favorite words to say, the people I enjoy seeing after class, and the recipes I’ve handwritten to share them with her and leave me without anything.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“Don’t Forget to Enjoy Life — Adelaide”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“Don’t Be In Love — Adelaide”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“My mind was whirling with thoughts of her. Talking to her. Watching her lean over me. Feeling her hands on my chest. Having her in between my legs. She was like an intricate piece of Fine China hidden in a vintage shop made up of complex swirls and patterns that I couldn’t perfectly recreate in my mind. And every time I saw her”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“The cause of the attack”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“Being a hopeless romantic is a sad life.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“hated how much I had her memorized. I hated how much overtime my brain was running to remember her while I slept, injecting it into my dreams.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“I didn’t need anyone to tell me how to find you,” he clarified. “I saw you leaning against the balcony. Your back is practically painted in my brain.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“Embarrassing. She thinks I’m embarrassing. Maybe I was. Maybe that’s what happened to a person who kept going back to someone who didn’t love them.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“Tomorrow is the last day of midterms and all I want to do after is read the past six Cultural Comments from The New Yorker, watch reality TV, stuff my face with the creamiest vanilla frappe I can find, and sleep before I have to do this all over again.” I gestured to the calculator (for creating KPIs), stacks of papers (highlighted printed syllabi), two cups of coffee (that I still loathed) and a mutilated lip gloss tube (because I couldn’t stop picking at my lips and needed to lather them in coconut goodness).”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“Opening his mouth, I read the words he shaped out. You look beautiful. My heart thudded against my chest. Thank you, I mouthed back.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“Isn’t she pretty?” she asked Dorian. ​“She is very pretty.” He nodded. His eyes met mine. It was so earnest that it was painful to absorb. Brown orbs swirling with a palette of golden watercolors that threatened to pull me in. ​“And isn’t she smart?” ​“Incredibly smart.” He nodded. I couldn’t read his face. It was quiet but full of thought. A closed book full of wisdom written in foreign languages, disguised with a simple cover. Only, his face was never simple. ​“Well, why don’t you ask her out!” Evelyn argued.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“Adelaide, this is a Townsen tradition, you can’t miss it. Clear your calendar, put your reads to the side, close your door so the neighbor’s cat doesn’t get it, and shelf the self-improvement podcasts for a night,” he reasoned.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“Suddenly, I could see the flecks of gold in his brown eyes.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“He had a lovely accent, terrible manners, and was always full of himself,” I recited.”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love

“Don’t Make Deals with Rich Men — Adelaide”
― Liana Cincotti, Don't Be In Love