Janet Fitch Quotes

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

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

I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

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.

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.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

Just the notion of falling for someone, that involves weakness.

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

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.

Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.

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

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.