Ro James Quotes

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

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.

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

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.

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.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

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.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.

By getting hurt, you might realize that what you thought you wanted and needed wasn't actually right for you. And that's a lesson only heartbreak and pain can teach you.