Sylvia Day Quotes

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

My heart is very much alive and in your hands. Do your best not to destroy it. You are very lucky it isn't it my hands... The only thing I know to do with hearts is incinerate them! Ouch!

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

I've figured out over the years, you can only hurt me if I love you; if I don't know you, I really don't care.

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

I just know that I’m not willing to let anything happen to you. When Nynia died, I was so lost and cold, and I haven’t been warm since. Not until I felt your hands on me. The only way I’ve been able to cope without you is to bury what I feel, but I can’t seem to do that anymore. When I’m with you all I can do is feel and need. (Talon)

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

The heart was made to be broken.

Only love can break your heart.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.

I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.

I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

If you can't feel then why did you kiss me? Because I can feel it here, in my heart.