Fangirl Love Quotes
How we cite our quotes:
Quote #1
"Seriously," Wren said, "you know what love feels like. I've read you describe it a thousand different ways." (7.66)
Oh, gay vampire love. Why are you so much less complicated than the real-life version?
Quote #2
"I don't want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I'm not interested in lips out of context." (8.53)
While other college students may be all about the hookups, Cath's a romantic at heart. If she can't find any lips as dreamy as Simon's, she'd rather stay in her room with her (fictional) true love.
Quote #3
"It was one thing when I had a crush on him and he was totally unattainable. But I don't think I could actually be with someone like Levi. It would be like interspecies dating." (16.50)
We've got to hand it to Cath for getting over it and going out with him anyway. Dating your hot roommate's hot sort-of-ex-boyfriend is pretty bold.
Quote #4
"It's anti-everything you usually find in a love story. Gooey eyes and 'you complete me.'"
"'You complete me' is a great line," Cath said. "You wish you came up with 'you complete me.'" (17.56-57)
Nick wishes he came up with a lot of things—as a writer, he's all ego and no voice.
Quote #5
And she'd see Levi again. And everything about that that would feel good—his smiling face, his long lines—would also feel like getting shot in the stomach. (22.12)
Scientists who scanned the brains of people who were madly in love saw the same active circuitry involved in fear and anxiety. Love actually can make you feel physically ill.
Quote #6
Levi strolled over to her bed and sat down in the middle. "You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you." (27.85)
Levi veers into Clever John Green Dream Guy voice at times, but hey, John Green Dream Guys are adorable, and all farm boys in Carhartts should all be so poetic. (Professor Piper would ask us if this is why we read fiction.)
Quote #7
Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath's stomach. (31.6)
That fluttery, slightly icky feeling in your stomach when you see your crush is caused by the release of the neurotransmitters dopamine and norepinephrine and the hormone cortisol. In less scientific terms, falling in love is like being bathed in an insane chemical soup of awesomeness and terror.
Quote #8
"I just like you so much," he said, his head falling against the couch. "Even more than that, you know?" (31.283)
When Levi falls in love with you, you get a special, intimate head lean.
Quote #9
"If it meant being here, in the aerie, with you," she said, "instead of you being somewhere else with someone else, I would gladly make the sacrifice." (33.45)
News flash: Cath Avery has just chosen a real, live boy over Simon Snow. Does this mean the posters and tee-shirts are on their way out? Will love drive Cath toward a new wardrobe and more sophisticated home décor?
Quote #10
Cath took a painful breath and reached up with one hand to touch his chin. "I love you," she said, "Levi." (34.159)
Despite all the fancy ways Cath has described love between a boy magician and his vampire roommate, when it comes time to express the sentiment to an actual human being, she chooses the simplest words possible—because they're enough.