Losing Her Quotes:

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

- Neil Strauss

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

topic: Risk, Losing, Willing, Losing Her

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

topic: Dream, Fall, Grace, Losing Her, Falling Behind

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

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

topic: Magic, Mind, Elements, Too Much Power, Losing Her

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

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

topic: Wall, Nurse, Way, Losing Her

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

topic: Girl, Memories, Mean, Losing Her, Miles Away

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

topic: Voice, Color, Years, Losing Her

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. "It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

topic: Book, Irritation, People, Losing Her, Ill Tempered

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

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

topic: Birthday, Women, Sunset, Losing Her

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

topic: Uncles, Thinking, Choices, Losing Her

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

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

topic: Bears, Losing, Chance, Losing Her

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

- John Green

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

topic: Losing, Holes, I Realized, Losing Her

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

topic: Mind, Losing, Wanted, Losing Her

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

topic: Passion, Heartache, Way, Losing Her, Sensations

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

source: Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

topic: Losing Her

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.

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

topic: Mother, Running, Dad, Spanking, Losing Her

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

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

topic: Giving, Comfort, Needs, Losing Her, Dejected

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

topic: Goes On, Way, Done, Losing Her

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

topic: Giving, Firsts, Losing, Losing Her, Water For Elephants

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

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

topic: Memories, Loss, Aunt, Memory Loss, Losing Her

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

topic: Mom, People, Age, Losing Her

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

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

topic: Girl, Children, May, Losing Her, Reins

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

topic: Cheer, Pain, War, Losing Her, President Bush

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

topic: Girl, Daughter, Mother, Losing Her, Great Battle

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

topic: Mother, Growing Up, Real, Losing Her, Latent

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

- Anouk Aimee

topic: Men, Risk, Identity, Losing Her

She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that there was another way, far quieter; a way that was numb and hopeless, flat, so much so that an emotion as strong as sorrow would have been a relief.

- Michael Cunningham

topic: Strong, Mind, Sorrow, Losing Her

He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there." (ARC p. 63)

- Anthony Marra

topic: Dark, Hair, Together, Fingernails, Losing Her

I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend

- Nora Ephron

source: FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 17, 2016

topic: Believe, Book, Lunch, Losing Her, Phantom Limbs