Alafair Burke Quotes

Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

If you see the lion’s fangs showing, do not think the lion is smiling.

There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.

We women are the same: I am always more attracted to the dangerous mystery man with piercing eyes and stubble rather than the clean-shaven 'puppy dog' type who is probably much better for me in the long run.

I wrote 'Song Like You' the day I recognized that someone who was really important to me was not actually very good for me, nor was I for them. I think we all have to make hard decisions like that at one point or another, having to let go of someone who we love because love isn't always enough to make it work.

I have grown up on a staple diet of love stories. But, soon I realised it is not so rosy or divine. It is painful, selfish and ugly. Love is the biggest curse of this generation!

The 'Sticky' video symbolizes the merry-go-round period of love, where things aren't quite right, but you can't help sticking around each other.

Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

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.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

The road to love is full of danger signs.

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?