There’s a quote in a book on asexuality (by Caterina Appia) that I can relate to very deeply, a quote by Michela Murgia about what could be considered aromanticism. While Michela Murgia didn’t openly identify as an aro person, so neither the author of the book nor I want to describe her as aromantic, I can relate to Murgia’s words (from an interview for Vanity Fair) in my own aro perspective, i.e. her words seem to express very well how I feel as an aro person:
Interviewer: “You never fell in love again?”
M. Murgia: “What does this word mean?”
Interviewer: “You tell me.”
M. Murgia: “If you mean that lightning bolt that makes your heart beat [faster], that makes everything else go blurry and focus only on that person, no, because I believe it to be a form of psycosis. I love a lot. But I don’t fall in love.”
For me, Michela Murgia’s words from that interview express — probably better than I ever could — what it means to me to be a “romance-averse” aro person (with absolutely no judgement towards people who feel differently from me).
The Little Prince and the Fox 