Losing Her Quotes

• To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

  Neil Strauss

  Risk, Losing, Willing

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.90, Canongate Books

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• Her feelings she hides Her dreams she can't find She's losing her mind She's falling behind She can't find her place She's losing her faith She's falling from grace She's all over the place

  Avril Lavigne

  Dream, Fall, Grace

  Song: Nobody's Home

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• Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.

  Richelle Mead

  Magic, Mind, Elements

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.118, Penguin

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• He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Wall, Nurse, Way

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.166, A&C Black

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• And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Girl, Memories, Mean

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• Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".

  Judith McNaught

  Color, Years, Voice

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• Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Book, Losing, Difficult

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “A Little Princess (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.56, Diversion Books

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• After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

  Barbara Cartland

  Funny, Birthday, Women

  Quoted in Times (London), 6 Oct. 1993.

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• Garrett must have sensed I was awake. "Hey Detective," he said to Uncle Bob, who was now trudging across the grating toward us. "I think we're losing her. I have no choice but to perform mouth-to-mouth." "Don't you dare," I said, my lids still in lockdown.

  Darynda Jones

  Uncles, Thinking, Choices

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.127, Macmillan

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• Yes." His gaze grew distant. "If I'd have the chance, if my position permitted, I would have pleaded with her not to accept the mission because of the danger, and because I couldn't bear the thought of..." "Of losing her?

  Kristen Britain

  Bears, Losing, Chance

  Kristen Britain (2011). “Blackveil: Book Four of Green Rider”, p.314, Penguin

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• That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

  John Green

  Losing, Holes, I Realized

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.187, Penguin

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• But when Anthony kissed her, she felt as if she were losing her mind. And when he kissed her twice, she wasn't even sure if she wanted it back!

  Julia Quinn

  Mind, Losing, Wanted

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• I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Passion, Heartache, Way

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “Plan B: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

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• I used to hate swimming at school so much that I would always sneak downstairs in the middle of the night and take my swimming costume out of my gym bag and hide it in the house somewhere. Then I'd never have to go swimming at school. This went on for months and I never got caught and my Mum turned into a nervous wreck because the thought she was losing her memory... and then one day she caught me and got super angry. That was kind of bad.

  Charli XCX

  Memories, Hate, School

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at home. When Mother returned, she asked him if everything had run smoothly. Didn't have any trouble except with that one over there,' he replied. 'But a spanking brought him into line.' Mother could handle any crisis without losing her composure. That's not one of ours, dear,' she said. 'He belongs next door.

  Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

  Mother, Running, Dad

  FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. (1948). “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”

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• Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Comfort, Needs

  "The Four Loves". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1960.

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• The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Goes On, Way, Done

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• Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that.

  Sara Gruen

  Elephants, Giving, Firsts

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• Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Book, Irritation, People

  "A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time".

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• My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Memories, Loss, Aunt

  "PBS Newshour’s Poetry Series: Where Poetry Lives" by Jonterri Gadson, therumpus.net. September 13, 2013.

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• When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

  Reese Hoffa

  Mom, People, Age

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• It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Girl, Children, May

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn.

  Ann Coulter

  Cheer, Pain, War

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• We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

  Tony Curtis

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

  Billy Corgan

  Mother, Growing Up, Real

  Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2005.

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