Wendy Cope Quotes

I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing.

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.

I sing a lot about love.

Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.

She went away, she cut me like a knife Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life In just a glance, down here on magic street Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.

Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you make me weak

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering longing in his eyes. Every fiber of her body told her to throw herself into his arms, but she knew what she had to do. She wanted to say, I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage; but instead she said: "I think I'm going to marry Alfred.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

My heart is very much alive and in your hands. Do your best not to destroy it. You are very lucky it isn't it my hands... The only thing I know to do with hearts is incinerate them! Ouch!

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.

She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.

There's a danger in loving somebody too much, and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

We are all fools in love.