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This Is What It Feels Like To Fall In Love With Your Forever Person

Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.
Holly Riordan
February 8, 2017
“You can fall in love again with someone you're already in love with. It's like waking from a dream within a dream and finding another layer, the colors more vivid, the light more lucid, the fantasy more real. Being in love is an endless loop of waking to reverie.”
— Leah Raeder, Cam Girl
Tagged: Falling In Love, Dreams, Fantasy
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
Tagged: Falling In Love, Defenses, hurt
“When you start to fall, don't try to talk yourself out of it. The right man will be there at the bottom, to catch you.”
— Julie Johnson, Not You It's Me
Tagged: Falling In Love, forever person, Mr Right
“You were falling for me, and I was falling for you, and we were falling together into the land of the fallen.”
— Lauren Blakely, 21 Stolen Kisses
Tagged: Falling In Love, falling, Fallen
“It’s not called ‘falling in love’ for no reason. It’s scary! It’s like jumping out of a plane with no parachute. Or bungee-jumping without your cord attached. Or hang-gliding with only one wing.”
— Andrea Lochen, Imaginary Things
Tagged: Falling In Love, scary, Bungee Jumping
“Love is the color of spring sunshine muted through old windows. Love has a taste, a texture - dark chocolate with pistachios; a sound - wind chimes echoing from a distant hill; a rhythm - the tango, obviously.”
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
Tagged: Falling In Love, Spring, dark chocolate
“The term fell in love is apt, because it implies there is pain in the discovery. I didn’t land softly in love.”
— N.B. Roberts, Halton Cray
Tagged: Falling In Love, Pain, Discovery
“You don't feel yourself falling in love, like it's a journey, a process; on the contrary, it hits you like a sudden ague, a fever, the realization that your life will never be the same again.”
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
Tagged: Falling In Love, Fever, Journey
“It’s a lot like a roller coaster. There are lots of twists and turns, and some of the hills are a bit scary, but you stay on the ride just to feel the thrill of that fall again.”
— Nancy Ann Healy, Falling Through Shooting Stars
Tagged: Falling In Love, Roller Coaster, thrill
“Love grows with every returned smile, every second of communal silence and every word exchanged. Unconditional love is built and when it’s finished nothing destroys it.”
— Sarah Noffke, Revived(The Lucidites)
Tagged: Falling In Love, Unconditional Love, Smiles
“There's not protocol for falling in love with someone. There's no game plan to tell you when it's appropriate to do certain things, say other things.”
— Lori L. Otto, Not Today, But Someday: a prequel(Emi Lost & Found)
Tagged: Falling In Love, plans, Protocol
“Falling in love is like falling from a high cliff into a warm silky sea, the falling is like flying and the landing is like a glimpse of the divine.”
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
Tagged: Falling In Love, falling, Flying
“The greatest wonderful feeling is falling in love.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great, Be Great!:(Beautiful Quotes, Volume 1)
Tagged: Falling In Love, Feelings, Love
“Love is like an undertow. You can fight it with every ounce of energy you have; it is far more powerful than you, and it inevitably sweeps you under. Once love takes hold, it remains. Love is what remains when life finds its ending. It is the bridge that connects where we have been, where we now reside, and where we ultimately need to travel.”
— Nancy Ann Healy, Falling Through Shooting Stars
Tagged: Falling In Love, Ocean, Bridge
“Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.”
— Jay Bell, Something Like Summer
Tagged: Falling In Love, Attraction, Memory
“I remembered something my dad once wrote me about falling in love. He said the phrase was apt because falling is exactly what it can feel like, as if you've finally allowed yourself to let go of some safety bar you didn't even know you were clinging to, and suddenly you find yourself tumbling towards the exciting unknown.”
— Mark Peter Hughes, Lemonade Mouth Puckers Up
Tagged: Falling In Love, unknown, Phrases
“Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.”
— Kim Wright, City Of Silence
Tagged: Falling In Love, sunrise, Sun
“He makes me want to knock down all the walls I’ve put up and let him inside. And it scares the shit out of me.”
— Kandi Steiner, Tag Chaser
Tagged: Falling In Love, Walls, scary
“It’s hard to say how it happens. How all of the bits of me – even the broken ones – start to tumble. I think it’s my toes that go first. Next – my legs and the hallow spaces behind my ribs. And then my arms all the way down through my wrist bones to the tips of my fingers. My lips part and I realize that this is what it feels like to fall.”
— Autumn Doughton, In This Moment
Tagged: Falling In Love, falling, broken
“You know you’re in love the moment you can touch the stars without reaching.”
— Melisa M. Hamling, Finding Forever(2 Book Series)
Tagged: Falling In Love, Stars, Space