Lisa Kleypas Quotes

The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

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

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

One thing 'Game of Thrones' has taught us all is to guard against too much emotional investment.

You learn pretty quickly: if you fall in love with your edit, you're bound to be heartbroken because it will all be re-cut.

I've had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people - whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people.

Sometimes, yeah, I wish I would have protected my heart a little more, absolutely.

I could really make a song of hurt, because I've been hurt by a lot of men. I'm talking about, like, how sad I be when a dude curves me. And I never talk about that because I refuse to let people know that I get sad because when a man don't answer my calls.

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.

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line

I've never had my heart broken. And I don't want to have my heart broken. I'm afraid of it. Even when I break someone else's heart, I'm really upset about it. And I'm not even feeling half of what they are.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

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.