Sue Grafton Quotes

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.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

I'd rather bleed with cuts of love than live without any scars.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

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

Pain is the biggest power of love.

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.

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.

The heart was made to be broken.

Only love can break your heart.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.