Hannah Brown Quotes

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

There is nothing you can control about love.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

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

Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection nonetheless. And in the almostness of the moment, I cared at least enough. I wasn’t sure whether I liked her, and doubted whether I could trust her, but I cared at least enough to try to find out. Her on my bed, wide green eyes staring down at me. The enduring mystery of her sly, almost smirking, smile. Five layers between us.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

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

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

I've been in love before, every love-relationship is tough and it has its challenges.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.