Caroline Leavitt Quotes

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

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

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

I was so in love with this boy in eighth grade. I really thought he was the one for me, and then he broke up with me because he said that I liked him more than he liked me, and I was living in N.Y. at the time, and I was on the subway just, like, truly heartbroken because when you're that age, you don't think you are ever going to recover.

A lot of people have experienced a relationship betrayal, even if it was when they were 16 and with their first love.

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

I've never had my heart broken.

I am too young and I've loved you too much.

Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? It's a pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy; you wouldn't want to pass it on to anyone else for fear he or she might not be able to bear it. It's the pain of being betrayed by a person with whom you've fallen in love. It's not as serious as death, but it feels a whole lot like it, and as I've come to learn, pain is pain any way you slice it.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.

The first love is the difficult love.

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.