Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

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

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn’t love her back?

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.

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.

Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.

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

I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I was broken. The Cage I was before Eva no longer existed. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I'd fallen in love with her. I'd allowed someone in and she hadn't want me. I hadn't been good enough. I never was.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

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.

Yet you told him you loved him?" "Yes, I did." Bridgid was clearly impressed. "You're more courageous than I am. The fear of being rejected pains me to even think about, yet you boldly told Brodick how you felt, even though he hadn't spoken his feelings." "Actually, he told me I loved him.

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.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

It's hard to fall in love with somebody, and then break up and not have feelings for that same person.

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.