Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

If I lose you, I lose everything

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

It's such a liability to love another person.

I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.

Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.

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

There is nothing in this world that I want or need, but you.

Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again.

You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.” “No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you.

When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

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.

Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.

When you fall in love, you become weak.

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

Just the notion of falling for someone, that involves weakness.

Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.

I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.

I'm as strong, strong as I can be, but ooh ooh ooh, baby you leave me weak.