Elayne Boosler Quotes

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

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting hurt.

You can't always trust people with your heart, but you should still love anyway. That's what I would say.

D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.

Love inevitably forces one to look at their own life, and that's either a good thing or a bad thing depending on what the person has going on or what they've experienced. The search for love and heartbreak is a fairly university condition and everybody will take away from it something different.

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

The heart was made to be broken.

Only love can break your heart.

My heart is very much alive and in your hands. Do your best not to destroy it. You are very lucky it isn't it my hands... The only thing I know to do with hearts is incinerate them! Ouch!

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.