Ellen Hopkins Quotes

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

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

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.

Here she comes that little town flirt, you're falling for her and you're gonna get hurt.

That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

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

When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting 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.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

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

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

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.

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

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.

When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.

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

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.

All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!