Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I was broken. The Cage I was before Eva no longer existed. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I'd fallen in love with her. I'd allowed someone in and she hadn't want me. I hadn't been good enough. I never was.

Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

The first love is the difficult love.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

Why do we fall in love so easy, even when it's not right?

Only love can break your heart.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

I've never had my heart broken.

The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

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.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

I love you,too, Garrett. But sometimes love isn't enough.

Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.