I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.
You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.
Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.
You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
Olivia Hussey from Zefferelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' makes the intense vulnerability of true love look magnificent.
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.
Maybe there were people out there whose love could survive anything, but mine was fragile. It needed to be nurtured in order to thrive and grow.
It takes a big man and a big woman to actually say, like, 'Okay, I'm in love with you, but I can't keep forcing it - it's only pushing us apart'.