Lionel Shriver Quotes

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.

Don't walk out of here. I can't lose you.

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

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

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

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

If I lose you, I lose everything

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It's intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can't stop going back to it, and it's pretty much the defining experience of a human being.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.

I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family.

If you are afraid of losing something, then you are dependent on it. If you are not afraid, then you are free.

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

It would break my heart to lose playing safe.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam "It still scares me"- Mia

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.