Mary Gordon Quotes

I don't want to break someone's heart, but you can't control that. A broken heart happens; that's inevitable.

Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.

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

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.

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, 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.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

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.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

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.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

When you fall in love, you become weak.

There is no love without loss. It’s a package deal.

My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.

I'm very emotional: to lose love is the same as dying.

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-but even if Schuyler still loves him, or thinks she does, it doesn't matter. Because Jack is going to leave her one day. i know he will. He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.

It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move.

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.

If loving you is wrong, then I'll just like you a whole bunch!