47 Heartfelt Crush Quotes

Having a crush is a delightful experience filled with excitement, wonder, and those unforgettable stomach butterflies. It's a whirlwind of emotions, where every glance, smile, or shared moment feels significant. Expressing these feelings can sometimes be a challenge, especially when words seem to fall short of what's in your heart. That's why we've gathered a collection of the top 47 heartfelt crush quotes to help illuminate and articulate those tender, unspoken emotions. Whether you're looking to convey admiration, affection, or simply revel in the joy of having a crush, these carefully curated quotes promise to resonate with both you and the object of your affection.

1. “She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.” - Candide

2. “Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.” - Richard Siken

3. “Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."Clara: "What?"Tucker: "You.” - Cynthia Hand

4. “It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.” - Sophie Kinsella

5. “I was literally seeing stars, and every ragged breath I took felt like I was trying to breathe through broken glass.On the upside, my crush on Archer was totally gone. Over. Once a boy has slammed his kneecap into your rib cage, I think any romantic feeling should naturally go the way of the ghost.” - Rachel Hawkins

6. “The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.” - Wendelin Van Draanen

7. “Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside.” - Lisi Harrison

8. “My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and here’s how I can tell: because I did not demand that he become my Great Emancipator or my Source of All Life, nor did I immediately vanish into that man’s chest cavity like a twisted, unrecognizable, parasitical homonculus. During our long period of courtship, I remained intact within my own personality, and I allowed myself to meet (him) for who he was.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

9. “She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.” - Bruce Springsteen

10. “I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.” - Kristan Higgins

11. “Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?” - Bram Stoker

12. “Shigure Sohma: So anyway I was wondering if you could stop by the house and take a look at Tohru's cut. That is if it isn't a problem. Hatori Sohma: No problem. I'll stop by the house this evening. Shigure Sohma: Hmmm What's this Hatori I don't think I ever heard you sound so eager to come over. Could it be you have a secret crush on Tohru [long silence from the other end of the phone] Shigure Sohma: [shouts] I knew it You naughty naughty man you Hatori Sohma: No I was simply too amazed by your stupidity to say anything.” - Natsuki Takaya

13. “He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to even see her, of being actually inside her ear.” - Jeffrey Eugenides

14. “We pull our boots on with both handsbut we can't punch ourselves awake and all I can do is stand on the curb and say Sorryabout the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.” - Richard Siken

15. “I always go for confident girls!” - Kenny Wormald

16. “All of Dragos’s sentinels were mean and barbaric and sexy. Even that weird harpy-bitch Aryal, who she might have a teensy girl crush on. You know, in a totally hetero kind of way.” - Thea Harrison

17. “We always have something running in the back of our thoughts. What's running behind yours?"Right now I was thinking about how nice his eyes looked, but I'd shave my head before I admitted that.” - Jennifer L. Armentrout

18. “Oh, those warm days of stumbling words; blinded eyes, embracing in sweet slow dances and sipping courage from a bottle for sneaking kisses.” - Kellie Elmore

19. “She's trapped me on the front side of the counter. Way. Too. Close. To. Her. LIP-GLOSS.” - Anne Eliot

20. “I grab my bag and open the door, trying to ignore him. But ignoring Gray Porter is like ignoring an elephant in a tutu. A really hot elephant-in a very manly tutu.” - Anne Eliot

21. “trust was as painful as love” - Nicole Williams

22. “It’s like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he’s a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies.” - Christopher Moore

23. “She wanted him to notice her so much.” - Ann Brashares

24. “His body was perfect. His parents wereloaded. His grades were terrible. He was a high school girl’sdream come true.” - Elizabeth Nicole

25. “Dear Hope, I NEVER thought Id see the day when two of your daily e-mails sandwiched a message from none other than PAUL PARLIPIANO. My crush to end all crushes! Gay man of my dreams! OOOH!” - Megan McCafferty

26. “I couldn't bear the thought of Alex looking at me like I was a freak. It was bad enough that the looked at me as Jack's sister.” - Sarah Alderson

27. “This put me very close to Jay and it was as uncomfortable as it was mystifying. It was uncomfortable because I still wasn’t sure I liked him all that much. It was mystifying because his intense stares were unlike anything I’d ever experienced; they were hard but soft at the same time, commanding but beautiful.” - Amanda Kelly

28. “Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.” - David Mitchell

29. “It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn’t old at all, and he had exactly the kind of body that most appealed to her, tall and lean, broad in the shoulder, narrow at the hip. Then there was his brain. It had taken her a lot of years to find that particular part of a man appealing, but she’d finally gotten in the habit, and she couldn’t seem to give it up.” - Susan Elizabeth Phillips

30. “How do you make yourself not like someone?” - Louise Rennison

31. “Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.” - Paul Hoffman

32. “Gohan...Is that sunburn or are you blushing?” - Akira Toriyama

33. “Why is it so embarrassing to admit you like someone? It should be a compliment to them, and even if they don't like you back, they should at least commend you on your refined taste.” - Dalya Moon

34. “I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

35. “I focus on my favorite daydream, the one where I return from London at the end of the summer and am all glamorous and drop-dead gorgeous and every girl in my school is completely jealous when Quinn McKeyan asks me to Fall Homecoming because he can’t resist my charm. Hey, it’s my daydream. I can dream what I want to. The thing is, Quinn’s face keeps getting replaced in my head by Dante’s. Since I’ve had a mad crush on Quinn from the time we started kindergarten all the way through our junior year last year, that’s saying something. Every daydream I’ve had for eleven years has been of him. I’m a very loyal daydreamer. And I suddenly feel like I’m cheating on my imaginary boyfriend, a boy who happens to be real, but who has been dating my best friend Becca for the past two years. And no. Becca has no idea that I’m secretly in love with her boyfriend. It’s the one secret that I’ve kept from her.” - Courtney Cole

36. “I squint my eyes and glare at him. “I don’t have a crush on Quinn anymore.” He raises a golden eyebrow. “No?” I shake my head. “No.” “Why is that?” I stare at him long and hard, trying to decide what to say. Should I be downright, painfully honest? I’ve always found that the best way to be, so I nod. “Two words.” He waits. “Dante. Giliberti.” I hear him suck in his breath and I smile. Sometimes, honesty is refreshing and so very worth it. “Me?” He sounds so surprised, as though he doesn’t know that he is practically a living breathing Adonis. I nod. “You.” He studies me again and I fight the need to fidget as I wait for his reaction. After a minute of nerve-wracking silence, he finally answers. “So, will you keep the bracelet?” I nod. “Can I kiss you again?” I nod. So he does.” - Courtney Cole

37. “For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.” - Carolyn Parkhurst

38. “When he smiles at me, I feel like I'm sitting under a heat lamp. I live for the times when his fingers brush my leg at lunch, or when we pass in the hallways and he raises his eyebrows at me, like we have a secret. I should feel bad--and I do, most of the time--but how can I stop thinking about him when seeing his face makes me feel so alive?” - Melissa C. Walker

39. “It's funny how there can be something special about that one person isn't it?” - Marisa Calin

40. “Sitting in the middle of my own constellation I can't imagine how I'll feel if you don't come.” - Marisa Calin

41. “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

42. “I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.” - Anita Diamant

43. “Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.” - Rainbow Rowell

44. “Love is a word that is overused these days, due to other lesser feelings often being mistaken for it. Infatuation, admiration, and attraction can pose as love, and can sometimes overwhelm us and fool us into thinking that we have found the real thing when we haven't. Those other feelings may be pleasant for a time, but they are not real love. Real love is rare. It's something that, quite honestly, I believe very few people ever truly experience.” - Marian Vere

45. “I feel love is like a cigarette –you know it is not good for you but by the time you realize, you are so addicted to it that you can't leave it.” - Shreya Gupta

46. “Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.” - Charlotte Brontë

47. “No more, no less. I'm an idiot. I really need to let this crush go.” - Pittacus Lore