Mary Frann Quotes

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

The thing about me is that I love variety. I like to try new things, and I don't want to be pinned back.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

I've always been an adventurer, an explorer.

With you, I would walk anywhere

I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.

He caught me to him, his arms banded tight around me. His face pressed into my throat. "Where do we go from here?" I held him. "Wherever this takes us. Together.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us.

I still believe in love, most definitely. I'm just going to let that take the lead.

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Relationships are beautiful, and it's wonderful to find someone you can spend time with and share your life with. But there's also a lot of pressure attached to that. And I think you can't be in a relationship until you have discovered yourself fully.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Trust is the first step to love.