Carol Anshaw Quotes

Being in love is an exhausting business.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

Seven years without a break really takes a toll on you, and you don't even realize it. You're affected by other people, and after a while, sometimes they have love for you, and sometimes they don't.

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.

Being in a relationship, I only appreciate when I come home from work how much I've given of myself at work or how depleted I am, and I sometimes worry that I've given all my best energy to my work, and all I can offer you is the emptied out shell.

Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.

Love is junk.

Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and *die*. The storybooks are *bullshit*. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and *get* in my bed!

I do not follow closely anymore, since there is a limit to how much heartsickness one can bear.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

It's funny about love', Sophia said. 'The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.' 'That's very true,' Grandmother observed. 'And so what do you do?' 'You go on loving,' said Sophia threateningly. 'You love harder and harder.

Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.

...the moron who thought love was forever.