Emma Bull Quotes

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

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

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.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

I've always thrown myself into love in a rather carefree way, and the net result is that you do get hurt. But I wouldn't take away any of the experiences of my life.

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

The heart wants what it wants, and you know, if you're not careful, you can find yourself in a situation where you give your heart away, and it can get broken.

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

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.

If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren't in love with me?" — Edward Cullen

When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.

I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

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

My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.

There's a danger in loving somebody too much, and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.

We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.

But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?