Bong Joon-ho Quotes

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.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you're in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who's completely untrustworthy, who at their core can't even believe in themselves?

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

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.

Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.

I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.

When your arms are out wide, you'll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in on a wave of that joy, and complications will ride the backs of the golden moments, and there will be both love and the risks of love. That's the way it is. That's the design.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Never say never, I find I get claustrophobic in a relationship.

There's the idea that love is supposed to hurt, but it really shouldn't hurt.

How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?

I had a bad habit of falling in love with any girl who was nice to me.

Don't rationalize or internalize abusive behavior, because love doesn't hurt.

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.

You can't always trust people with your heart, but you should still love anyway. That's what I would say.

You have one heart, and once you give it away, it's gone. If you wear it on your sleeve, a lot of people are there to take advantage of it.

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