Ayelet Waldman Quotes

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

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

Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him. The shame is overwhelming.

What had seemed like love was betrayal

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

She didn't love me that much, but she moved in with me. That's a plus. And then one night, I caught her making out with another dude on the driveway. That's a minus.

Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

Hearts don’t realize they’ve been lied to. They still love anyway.

I'm weak cause I believe you and I'm mad because I love.

If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.

Trust is not very easy for me at all. I want to be a trusting person, but I've been bruised so many times - not to sound woe-is-me about my life.