Glen Duncan Quotes

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

There is nothing you can control about love.

Just the notion of falling for someone, that involves weakness.

I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

One of the exhilarating parts of falling in love is discovering new things about one another, and seeing the world from a different point of view.

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate

That you can know what i have in me and still want me as much as i want you. i go to sleep every night afraid i'll wake up and you'll be gone.or that i scared you away ... that i dreamed you-" "no. Gideon." jesus he broke my heart every day. shattered me.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.