Patricia Briggs Quotes

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Love is an act of courage.

-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.

Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

To choose love and jump in not knowing, with a lot of unknowns, is a brave act.

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Love is scary, like anything else, whether you're falling in love, whether you're discovering love in something else...if you're really going to jump off the cliff, when you meet somebody that you love you're going to jump off that cliff, you've got to give them everything. And when you have a kid, it's on a much greater level.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.