Ann Rinaldi Quotes

People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.

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.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

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

I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

The heart wants what it wants, and you know, if you're not careful, you can find yourself in a situation where you give your heart away, and it can get broken.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.

If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

I'm gonna love you like I've never been broken I'm gonna say it like it's never been spoken

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.