Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again.

Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his colour.) Beautiful! Roxane: Yes. What's wrong? Cyrano: With me? Nothing. It's only... only... (Displaying his bandaged hand, with a little smile.) This fatal wound.

Only love can break your heart.

Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.

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.

All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.

When you fall for the one that owns you, she’ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.

All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.

Alone because love was one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed to be in control. She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud.

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.