"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"
About this Quote
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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| Topic | Romantic |
|---|---|
| Source | Help us find the source |
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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/
Chicago Style
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.






