Ellen Hopkins Quotes

If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.

I'm sorry. It's Hard for me. I do love you," she said quietly. "Sometimes it scares me because you're the first. And the only" He held her there until he was sure he could speak, then eased her back, looked into her eyes "You've chaged my life. Become my life." He touched his lips to hers, let the kiss deepen slowly, silkily. "I need you

I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.

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

One must not trifle with love.

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

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.

I'm as strong, strong as I can be, but ooh ooh ooh, baby you leave me weak.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

Love inevitably forces one to look at their own life, and that's either a good thing or a bad thing depending on what the person has going on or what they've experienced. The search for love and heartbreak is a fairly university condition and everybody will take away from it something different.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

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.

Why do we fall in love so easy, even when it's not right?

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?

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

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.

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.