Smitten Quotes

“When we are smitten, we await love to be “remontant” and to be blooming over and over again”, like remontant roses, with blossoms scenting through all the seasons of life. Passion and patience are to be good allies, though.”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Love is a challenge with an illusion emanating an aura of otherness. Through their unrelenting attention, two smitten people can arouse a to and fro conveyance of sentiments, with a go-between of emotions becoming a weighty sovereign messenger, gradually turning into a third partner of a "ménage à trois" union. ("I seek you")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The tapping grows insistent, and I turn, intending to tell off the Cadet. Instead, I'm faced with a slave-girl looking up at me through impossibly long eyelashes. A heated, visceral shock flares through me at the clarity of her dark gold eyes. For a second, I forget my name.
I've never seen her before, because if I had, I'd remember. Despite the heavy silver cuffs and high, painful-looking bun that mark all of Blackcliff's drudges, nothing about her says slave. Her black dress fits her like a glove, sliding over every curve in a way that makes more than one head turn. Her full lips and fine, straight nose would be the envy of most girls, Scholar or not. I stare at her, realize I'm staring, tell myself to stop staring, and then keep staring. My breath falters, and my body, traitor that is, tugs me forward until there are only inches between us.

“Asp-aspirant Veturius.”

It's the way she says my name—like it's something to fear—that brings me back to myself. Pull it together, Veturius. I step away, appalled at myself when I see the terror in her eyes.

“What is it?” I ask calmly.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Ben made me laugh. I was attracted to his attraction for me: the way he smiled for instance, whenever he saw me, that goofy kind of grin that hijacks the face of the helplessly smitten.”
― Cheryl Drake Harris, Lily's Ghost: A Novel

“He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.”
― Thomas Hardy

“Also, I'm too plump. All my dresses are tight."
"You look the same as always."
"My dress had to be altered last night. It wouldn't button up the back."
Twisting stealthily in the chair, Tom peeked around the edge. His breath caught as he stared at her in wonder.
For the first time in his life, Tom Severin was smitten. Smitten and slain.
She was beautiful the way fire and sunlight were beautiful, warm and glowing and golden. The sight of here dealt him a famished, hollow feeling. She was everything he'd missed in his disadvantaged youth, every lost hope and opportunity.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, though not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things

“And I hug her again. Because I just can’t stop touching this girl.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“But there was only her. Only this female in his arms.

And the only name he could remember was hers.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Why, Griffin Lott. Shelby said her little girl was smitten with you. Are you smitten with the mama?"

"Her brother's right here, and he's already threatened to punch me."

"She'd be your type," Matt put in.

"My type?"

"Because you don't have a type, as long as she's female."

"Her brother's sitting right here," Griff repeated and applied himself to his beer.”
― Nora Roberts

“He sure as hell hadn’t expected to walk into the middle of a standoff between a big bruiser and a short redhead who prepared to slurp the guy’s spine through a straw.

And when she’d punched the big bruiser square in the jaw?

Well, he just might’ve fallen in love.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Taking Root

“Also, I'm too plump. All my dresses are tight."
"You look the same as always."
"My dress had to be altered last night. It wouldn't button up the back."
Twisting stealthily in the chair, Tom peeked around the edge. His breath caught as he stared at her in wonder.
For the first time in his life, Tom Severin was smitten. Smitten and slain.
She was beautiful the way fire and sunlight were beautiful, warm and glowing and golden. The sight of her dealt him a famished, hollow feeling. She was everything he'd missed in his disadvantaged youth, every lost hope and opportunity.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“Being smitten awakens one's eagerness to fill and end the day with love, so they may wake and do it all over again for the one who holds their heart.”
― Martika Shanel, What to Do with These Red Flags: Unlocking Healthy Relationships from the Pennants Within

“I've needed you from the moment I first met you. And now that I get to have you, I don't want to stop.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Impressive,' Ash murmured.

I stared at him. 'What is?'

'You.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Shadow in the Ember