Lena Headey Quotes

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

I think when you love a child, it's a different kind of love. You think, 'I love more every day. I love more every day, more every day, I couldn't possibly love any more, I'm going to blow up.' And then you blow up. Your chest actually starts to hurt. You love so much, you think I can't love any more.

I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

My love for my son just destroys me. I can barely even talk about it.

Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.

Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a man who couldn't live without me, a man who pictured my face when he closed his eyes, who loved me when I was a mess in the morning and when dinner was late and even when I overloaded the washing machine and burned out the motor. [My son] stares up at me as if I can do no wrong. I have always wanted someone who treats me the way he does; I just didn't know that I'd have to give birth to him.

I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.

Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly. There was no pause before I shook my head. "That's a shame," said Adam. "Why?" "Well, someone as special as your daughter should've been... made with love.

Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.

My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.

People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.

When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, 'O My Father.'

I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. I love my mother to this day.

I love my mother. I reach out to my mother.

I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.