Sue Perkins Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than break someone else's heart.

I didn't think I was doing anything bad by falling in love.

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

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

Love hurts more than hate.

There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

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-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.

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.