Mike Gayle Quotes

People always go on about how fantastic relationships are in the beginning, and of course everyone hates relationships when they end, but what about the middles? the middles where you know everything there is to know. Where you can look at the person you love and know what they're thinking, see something on the telly and know how they'd react;When you know exactly what they'd wear to come round and see you.

When you think about it finding the perfect partner is a bit like a game of pontoon. I mean, you get your cards and you make your decision, do you stick or twist? do you play safe and settle for 19 or do you go all out for 21 even if you might end up bust?

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?

Good things could happen to not so bad people.

I won't stop loving you because I can't stop loving you.

Youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is

She was the first woman in my life to convince me to fall in love with her.

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

To her to know truly, was to be intimate. To be intimate was to know the person you love as well as you know your own self.

I know he's right to be worried about us, because I'm worried about us too. I don't understand how relationships work. I don't know how they survive. It seems every day something new arrives to threaten your peace of mind.

One day the worlds male population will spontaneously combust because they've kept too much stuff in for too long.

Like God and McDonalds, Aggi was everywhere

The difference between our love and the love you have for her is like the difference between knowing something in your head and knowing something in your heart. In your head, you think you love me because we see the world the same way, we feel the same things - in a way we're almost like twins - but what you and her have is much more special because it's not about what you have in common, it's about the way she makes you feel in your heart. And the heart wins every time.

She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you'd want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt.

If you haven't got your life sorted at forty, no one, not even your own mum, is going to hand you a medal and say well done.

I used to think I had all the time in the world to do everything I wanted. But what's the use of having all the time in the world if you're always wasting it on things that don't mean a thing?

Love is so complicated, that is why it is love.

You've changed my mind,' she said shyly. I noted her curious choice of words but refused to let her say any more. Additional conversation would only confuse the matter. If I could change her mind without knowing it, I could just as easily change it back again by accident.

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

I shuddered at the thought and from that point on did my best to stop thinking.

In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you - just when you need to be reminded the most - why you fell in love with someone in the first place.