Lisa Kleypas Quotes

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Love hurts more than hate.

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

Pain is love.

There's the idea that love is supposed to hurt, but it really shouldn't hurt.

When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

Why do we fall in love so easy, even when it's not right?

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

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.

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet.

You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.