That flutter in your stomach, the way a single text lights up your day—having a crush is equal parts thrilling and nerve-racking.
Having a crush is one of the most beautiful feelings in the world. When you have a crush on someone, you feel crazy emotions. The smile appears on your face for no reason. It can make you feel butterflies in your stomach. When you see your crush, you feel a sense of happiness.
It’s an exciting feeling, and it’s natural to want to impress your crush! If you’re looking for the perfect words to express your crush, we’ve got you covered. From cute and funny to romantic and passionate, here are some of the best crush quotes to help you find the perfect words to let them know how you really feel.
Whether you’re ready to confess, want to drop a subtle hint, or just need a caption for that selfie you hope they’ll notice, the collections below supply words for every vibe. Pick a quote that matches your personality, add a personal tweak, and watch sparks fly.
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Best Crush Quotes
- “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
- “I don’t know why I’m so afraid to lose you when you’re not even mine.” — Nurilla Iryani
- “My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to let myself want him.” ―Mackenzie Herbert
- “My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.” ―Judy Blume
- “You’ve hijacked my playlist—somehow every love song sounds like it’s about you.”
- “I didn’t plan on catching feelings, but your smile hit the ‘add to cart’ button in my heart.”
- “There are seven billion people on Earth, and somehow you became my favorite notification.”
- “Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all-consuming.” — Maya Banks
- “I really liked him and when you really like someone, not everything is simple to understand.” — Kyle Labe
- “It’s nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you’re alive, you know?” — Scarlett Johansson
- “If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.” — Claudia Adrienne Grandi
- “Crushes are supposed to fade; yours set up camp and painted the walls of my thoughts.”
- “My day improves in direct proportion to how many seconds I see your name on my screen.”
- “Every time you laugh, I decide hope is a reasonable life strategy.”
- “You’re the plot twist that turned a regular Tuesday into my favorite chapter.”
- “Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” — Rosemonde Gerard
- “He is the illusion of which you dream. He is a beautiful afterthought of all the words of love left unspoken.” — Maddy Kobar
- “I tried to play it cool, but my pulse posted spoilers.”
- “Your presence turns coffee into adrenaline and silence into playlists.”
- “Do you know what it’s like to like someone so much you can’t stand it and know that they’ll never feel the same way?” — To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
- “I had no technique for dealing with him: only an overpowering, unnerving, irrational, chemical desire to be with him.” — Elaine Dundy
- “I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist.” — Laini Taylor
- “Some people shine; you glow in a color I haven’t named yet.”
- “And then, more than anything, I wanted to stop hearing Macey’s words, It’s okay for you to like him, because sometimes not liking someone is easier.” — Ally Carter
Cute Crush Quotes Straight From the Heart
- “The mark of a true crush… is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.” — Shana Alexander
- “The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” — Jane Austen
- “He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of separation removed.” — Rick Yancey
- “My heart is, and always will be, yours.” — Jane Austen
- “Your texts are tiny parachutes that rescue my mood every time they drop in.”
- “I keep replaying our conversations like my favorite sitcom reruns.”
- “If you could see that I’m the one that understands you, been here all along so why can’t you see you belong with me.” — Taylor Swift
- “When you say my name, it sounds like a secret recipe for happiness.”
- “I caught myself smiling; then I realized I was thinking about you… again.”
- “If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There’s not a speck of doubt in my mind. He must care.” — Caroline George
- “Your laugh is a sparkler in the dark corners of my day.”
- “If butterflies had a soundtrack, it would be your voice.”
- “You should let me love you, let me be the one to give you everything you want and need.” — Mario
- “You make ordinary minutes feel like sprinkles on ice cream.”
- “I’d loan you my hoodie—but fair warning, it now smells like a crush in progress.”
- “You are, and always have been, my dream.” — Nicholas Sparks
Sweet Crush Quotes To Convey Your Love And Feelings
- “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Bronte
- “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” — Haruki Murakami
- “All I really want is to hold you tight, treat you right, be with you day and night.” — Britney Spears
- “Faces come and faces go in circular rotation. But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.” — Don McLean
- “Your presence is a gentle nudge reminding me the world still has poetry.”
- “You don’t just cross my mind—you linger there like a favorite lyric stuck on repeat.”
- “I think about you constantly, whether it’s with my mind or my heart.” — Terri Guillemets
- “You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time.” — Teresa Lo
- “With you, small talk feels like treasure maps leading to bigger dreams.”
- “Every good morning becomes great when it starts with your name in my notifications.”
- “I got a crush on you; I hope you feel the way that I do: I get a rush when I’m with you; Oh, I got a crush on you.” — Mandy Moore
- “Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.” — John Donne
- “I don’t need fireworks; your hello already paints the sky.”
- “Your kindness adds sugar to my coffee and warmth to my plans.”
- “It was so easy to get excited about someone I didn’t know, so easy to play “crush” from afar, just like with a fictional character. As long as I never talked to Cute Boy, he was going to be perfect, a good reason to wake up tomorrow.” — Gaia B. Amman
- “If smiles were currency, yours could pay off global loneliness.”
- “You’re the cozy corner of a bustling room—the place I want to be.”
- “Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.” — Peter S. Beagle
Romantic Quotes For Your Crush
- “Loving you is exactly similar to breathing. How can I stop?” — Anonymous
- “The sight of you makes my heart flutter.”
- “He seems to have become a part of my life and I’m disappointed if I don’t see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.” — Dorothy Koomson
- “Sometimes I gotta just make sure that I didn’t lose you.” — Drake
- “I have a crush on your mind. I fell for your personality. Your looks are just a bonus.” — Nicolas Sparks
- “If stars could whisper, they’d confess they’re jealous of the way your eyes light my night.”
- “Your laughter is the candle that turns ordinary dinners into candlelit evenings.”
- “Every heartbeat chants your name in quiet, persistent rhythm.”
- “My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.” — Jennifer Harrison
- “His presence, so strange and wonderful, seemed to fill the room and press against me. I didn’t think I’d ever sleep again.” — Maggie Stiefvater
- “When you walk in, time practices slow motion just to admire you.”
- “Your thoughts must be constellations, because I get lost in them every time you speak.”
- “I’ve memorized the map of your smile—each curve a promise of where love could lead.”
- “I especially love the way he moves, like a young god who takes his time walking because he wants mere mortals like me to bask in his perfection.” — Marian Tee
- “We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around in all my melancholy glory.” — Marisa Calin
- “If destiny sketches in pencil, meeting you felt like its boldest ink stroke.”
- “One look from you and gravity feels like a polite suggestion.”
- “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” — Matt Trevitz
Crushing Quotes
- “I think of you with every love song I hear.”
- “I’m terrified that you won’t like me back but I’m even more terrified of losing out on the possibility of dating you if I sit back and say nothing.”
- “I dream of going to places with you and waking up with you everyday. Someday, I wish all of these hopes would come true.”
- “I don’t want to dream of you anymore. I want you for real.”
- “Crushing is weird: it hijacks your playlist, your appetite, and your ability to form coherent sentences.”
- “A crush is hope wearing sneakers—always ready to sprint.”
- “That buzzing in your chest? Side effect of someone renting space in your imagination.”
- “Crushes turn eye contact into entire conversations.”
- “They say falling is scary, but crushing is the thrilling tiptoe to the edge.”
- “You know it’s a crush when coffee isn’t the reason you’re awake at 2 a.m.”
- “He wants to know everything about her. How she spends her time when not performing. How she interacts with her audiences. How she takes her tea.” — Erin Morgenstern
- “Please stop looking so attractive, I’m trying to stop liking you.”
- “She’s a walkin’, talkin’ reason to live.” — Bruce Springsteen
- “That moment when you and your crush look at each other at the same time and smile.”
- “I like her because she smiles at me and means it.” – Terri Guillemets
- “A single emoji from them is an unexpected plot twist in your day.”
- “Crushes teach patience—one agonizing typing bubble at a time.”
Crush Quotes About Catching Feelings
- “She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” — D. Salinger
- “He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head.”
- “ I would let you have my favorite coffee in the morning, but kindly don’t ask!”
- “She is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams.” — Whitney Otto
- “Feelings snuck in like sunlight through curtains—soft, inevitable, and impossible to ignore.”
- “I realized I was catching feelings when your happiness became the headline of my day.”
- “Catching feelings is noticing their quirks and labeling them ‘favorite features.’”
- “You know the fall is real when daydreams start drafting five-year plans.”
- “It begins with curiosity and ends with playlists titled after their initials.”
- “Feelings caught me off guard, but wearing your smile as armor feels safe.”
- “I still got a crush that’s obvious.” — The Neighborhood
- “If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.” — Khalil Gibran
- “I always hope you’re looking at me while I’m looking away.”
- “Love is like a friendship caught on fire.” – Bruce Lee
- “And I hope sometimes you wonder about me.” — Taylor Swift
- “It’s all these little things you do that make me so crazily attracted to you.”
- “I didn’t trip; I intentionally missed the step called ‘just friends.’”
- “The heart files new feelings under ‘urgent’ before the brain finishes reading the memo.”
- “Catching feelings turns random phrases into inside jokes only you two understand.”
- “She said once a long time ago, make your happiness renewed and I will bet my life itself will have a crush on you, I did and she tried crushing my life by the way, anyway I found myself lucky.” — Santosh Kumar
- “I’d thought that gazing at her would satisfy my raging fire but instead I was aching all over.” — Anoir Ou-Chad
Crush Quotes Celebrating Love
- “She was my heart’s eternal crush, the kind that burns so deeply that it leaves scars even after it’s gone.” — Anonymous
- “Your flaws aren’t flaws to me.”
- “I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
- “Sweetheart, someone, somewhere is madly crushing on you right now even while you crib about your crush showering attention elsewhere.” — Nitya Prakash
- “It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.” — William Makepeace Thackeray
- “Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.” — Sylvia Plath
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “We love the things we love for what they are.” — Robert Frost
- “Love’s gift cannot be given. It waits to be accepted.” — Rabindranath Tagore
- “Love took me by surprise. Love led me to you. And love opened up my eyes.” — Michelle Branch
- “You should let me love you, let me be the one to give you everything you want and need.” — Mario
- “I have a crush on your mind. I fell for your personality. Your looks are just a bonus.” — Nicolas Sparks
- “Love often begins as a crush wearing hope like perfume.”
- “Celebrating love means honoring the spark that started as stolen glances.”
- “A crush is love rehearsing its first lines.”
- “We toast to beginnings because every lasting love started with a nervous hello.”
- “Love graduates from crush when courage exchanges whispers for confessions.”
Secret Crush Quotes
- “You have no idea how loud my silence gets when you walk by.”
- “My diary knows your name better than I do.”
- “Loving you in secret is like smiling behind a book—obvious to anyone who looks closely.”
- “You’re the best kept secret my grin keeps leaking.”
- “If thoughts were confessions, the room would echo with your name.”
- “I favorite your posts faster than my courage loads.”
- “Hiding feelings is exhausting; my heart keeps forgetting the stealth protocol.”
- “You’re the headline my voice never prints.”
- “I rehearse conversations with you that will never reach the stage.”
- “Secret crushes are love stories written in invisible ink—waiting for the right heat.”
- “Your proximity is both remedy and challenge to my composure.”
- “I edit my texts to hide the part where every sentence wanted to start with ‘I like you.’”
- “It’s funny how loudly a secret can beat.”
Funny Crush Quotes
- “You’re my favorite accidental workout—heart rate goes up every time you appear.”
- “If crushing on you burned calories, I’d be an Olympian.”
- “I’m not stalking; I’m just heavily invested in your online presence.”
- “You had me at ‘seen’… three hours later.”
- “Crush math: 1 glance × 2 smiles = 3 hours of overthinking.”
- “Congratulations! You’ve won a free subscription to my thoughts—no unsubscribe button available.”
- “My flirting style is feeling awkward and hoping you read minds.”
- “Do you have a Band-Aid? Because my self-control fell when I saw your latest post.”
- “I’d like to thank whatever algorithm keeps putting your pics at the top of my feed.”
- “If we were emojis, I’d be the heart-eyes and you’d be… still typing.”
- “I practice looking casual around you; the mirror says otherwise.”
- “Your Instagram stories are my new favorite mini-series.”
- “Sorry for the accidental 3 a.m. like—my thumb ships with zero chill.”
Turning a Quote into a Memorable Moment
1. Pair it with a visual.
Screenshot or design the quote over a simple background (Canva works great) and DM it—visuals grab attention faster than plain text.
2. Use voice notes for impact.
Reading a cute or funny quote aloud adds personality (and lets them hear the smile in your voice).
3. Hide it in plain sight.
Write the quote on a sticky note and slip it inside a borrowed book, notebook, or coffee-shop napkin—discovering it later amplifies the “aww” factor.
4. Caption + Context.
Post a shared memory photo and pair it with a sweet line. The nostalgia plus the quote does double duty.
5. Countdown confession.
Send one quote a day for a week, ending with an original note (“Plot twist: all those quotes were about you.”).
6. Quote-turned-question.
Follow the quote with a playful prompt—“Which song makes you think of secret crushes?”—to spark conversation.
7. Incorporate their interests.
Tweak a line to mention their fandom, hobby, or coffee order. Personalization turns generic into unforgettable.
Final Thoughts
Quotes capture feelings we sometimes can’t voice ourselves—use them as icebreakers, captions, or stepping-stones to deeper conversations. Choose one that sounds like you, add a personal touch, and let your words start writing the next chapter of your crush story. Happy sharing—and good luck!