Megan McCafferty Quotes

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

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.

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.

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.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

There is nothing you can control about love.

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

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Everyone is scared of getting hurt, but having been there and taken the chance on someone and fallen in love - it's worth getting past all of your heart's reservations, regardless of how things transpire.

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.

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.

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam "It still scares me"- Mia

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

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

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.