Judith McNaught Quotes

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

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

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

Love hurts more than hate.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

I thought I was loved.

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.

You can't go on telling, 'I am in love.'

I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.

I've always thrown myself into love in a rather carefree way, and the net result is that you do get hurt. But I wouldn't take away any of the experiences of my life.

To me, the best writing points to something literal or common but is also nuanced: The moment when somebody is telling you they love you while simultaneously disappointing you. Everybody's experienced that.

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you really cared for somebody, then that was it. It never occurred to me that people could lie about the way they felt about you. I had to learn that the hard way.

D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.

Only love can break your heart.

Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.

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.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.