Sophie Cookson Quotes

I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.

I love emotional, intense stuff; it's easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest thing. It can be easier to get your hooks into something big.

I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the drama as well.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.

Love gives life purpose and meaning.

The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.

If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things.