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Love & Passion Quote by Corey Haim

"What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling"

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Corey Haim doesn’t dress this up as romance; he sells it as physiology with a teen-movie grin. The dolphins line is ridiculous on purpose, a cartoon metaphor that lands because it captures how adolescent desire actually feels: too big for language, so you reach for a nature documentary. Dolphins are sleek, fast, euphoric energy. Put them in the bloodstream and you’ve got a body hijacked by excitement, a rush that’s intimate but also vaguely comedic - which is exactly the emotional register Haim traded in during his peak years.

The intent is direct: to validate a kind of innocence that’s all sensation and no strategy. Kissing, in this framing, isn’t a prelude or a performance; it’s the moment when the nervous system declares itself. The subtext, though, is more complicated. By specifying “a girl,” the quote sits squarely in a hetero, teen-heartthrob template: desire as simple, universal, commercially legible. It’s a line that could live in an interview meant to keep the brand clean, relatable, and hormonally charged.

Context matters because Haim’s fame was built on youthful vulnerability sold to an audience that wanted feelings without consequences. Read now, it plays like a time capsule of late-80s/early-90s pop masculinity: earnest, boyish, and allergic to cynicism. The slightly awkward phrasing - “like, swimming through your blood stream” - is the tell. It’s not poetry; it’s someone trying to describe being overwhelmed in public, turning private intensity into a safe, goofy image that lets the viewer feel it too.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Haim, Corey. (2026, January 17). What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/what-does-kissing-really-mean-to-me-to-me-if-you-38970/

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Haim, Corey. "What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/what-does-kissing-really-mean-to-me-to-me-if-you-38970/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/what-does-kissing-really-mean-to-me-to-me-if-you-38970/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Corey Haim

Corey Haim (December 23, 1971 - March 10, 2010) was a Actor from Canada.

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