Wasn't Looking For Love Quotes

#1. There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you. It was everything and nothing. Life. Ma's death. Talking to anybody. Not worth it

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were.
To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.
Because in that journey was where truth resided.
Love wasn't about being held. It was about being freed.

Emma Raveling

#3. In a breaker's yard you discover anything can have a new life, be reborn as part of a car or railway carriage, or a shovel blade. You take that older life and you link it to a stranger.

Michael Ondaatje

#4. You wait up for me I don't wake up for you. Would you like the company or are you sick of me. When your love lets you go you only want love more. Even when love wasn't what you were looking for
Speak slow, tell me love where do we go.

Tegan Quin

#5. Before I saw you, I hadn't cared for anyone for ... well, for the good part of a century, and it felt like my heart had been permanently disconnected. I wasn't even looking anymore. And without expecting anything ... without any hope at all, suddenly you were here.

Amy Plum

#6. If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

Deborra-Lee Furness

#7. I love you, Allison. It happened when I wasn't looking for it, when I didn't know I needed it. But I fell in love with you so quickly and so smoothly. So without question.

Jessica Park

#8. You never quite realize how much you love and need him until the very moment you realize he's slipping away ...

Alice

#9. Wrapped up in him, in his bad boy ways and his good guy heart, is my whole world. Somehow, while I wasn't looking, I fell. And I fell hard. For my soul mate. For the love of my life. For my hero.

M. Leighton

#10. Aham and I weren't getting back together-we swore we weren't, we couldn't-but when I wasn't looking, he had become my family anyway.

Lindy West

#11. In the heart, there is no sting greater than watching the struggles of one you love, knowing that only through such strife will that person grow and recognize the potential of his or her existence.

R.A. Salvatore

#12. I was focusing on the now. But that didn't mean I couldn't still wonder about what came after.

Robyn Schneider

#13. When your love lets you go you only want love more, even when love wasn't what you were looking for.

Tegan Quin

#14. But how could she explain that their crude idea of love didn't seem satisfying, and a good-looking husband wasn't all she wanted in life?

Melanie Dickerson

#15. She'd made her way into his heart. Snuck in when he wasn't looking. It was impossible to be with her and not fall deeply, madly in love with her.

Christine Feehan

#16. God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

Jackie Pullinger

#17. His outfit wasn't what she was looking at, though. It was his eyes. They were always so bright, and with his hair falling into them, she was finding it hard to form coherent thoughts. But the she noticed that he hadn't shaved.
For the love of God.

Toni Aleo

#18. You showed me what love truly is just by giving yours so selflessly. I wasn't made for love. It wasn't [woven]into the fabric of my being. I didn't know what it was, what I was looking for, what I needed. I had no point of reference, no examples, nothing. Until you.

Sylvia Day

#19. She watched him in the glow of the lamplight, his broad shoulders hunched over the piano, his hair flopping over his face, and knew she couldn't fight her feelings for him any longer. Denying him wasn't going to make them go away. And looking at him right at this moment, she didn't want them to.

Alexandra Potter

#20. Calligraphy of geese
against the sky-
the moon seals it.

Yosa Buson

#21. Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#22. It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own.

Bill Bryson

#23. I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I'll still miss every day. I'll go back to work. I'll get better. I'll get better slowly. I'll find all the secret, hidden things.

Monica Hesse

#24. She blinked her eyes open, her lips parted and cheeks flushed, looking every bit like a goddess before him. And if he were a better man, he wouldn't have been able to taint such purity. But he wasn't a better man, and there was no turning back now.

A. Zavarelli

#25. Just looking at you shines sunlight on every moment I live. Before I knew you, I wasn't even alive. I thought I knew what I wanted, but I didn't have any idea. You barged into my life and changed it forever. I love you, I admire you, I lust after you, I adore you ...

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#26. Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.

Rufus Wainwright

#27. When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.

Mads Mikkelsen

#28. I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

Nadya Suleman

#29. He was the one I wasn't looking for.

Nikki Rowe

#30. This thing about looking for someone less different ... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

Nick Hornby

#31. Kay wasn't looking for true love. It was embarrassing to admit, but she wasn't completely over her divorce. She just wanted an opportunity to take her social skills out for a spin every now and then. She needed to be sure Kay The Person, hadn't been completely overtaken by Kay The Mom.

Delora Dennis

#32. Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn't give.

Hanif Kureishi

#33. He wasn't looking at me, and I wasn't looking at him. "Sometimes I wonder if you make decisions just to piss me off."
I glared at the road. "Sometimes I wonder if you give yourself too much credit in my decision-making.

Catherine Doyle