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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories... these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we've got the wrong story.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.