Love Quote by Janet Fitch

Fitch’s line cuts against the sentimental script that treats love as rescue and instead frames it as exposure. “Liability” is legal language: a debt on the books, a risk you carry, something that can be leveraged against you. That choice makes the emotion feel less like destiny and more like contract law, as if intimacy is a balance sheet where the cost is vulnerability. The wit here isn’t jokey; it’s cold-eyed. Fitch takes a word from insurance adjusters and drops it into the softest corner of human life, forcing you to feel how quickly devotion can become a weakness.

The subtext is about power. To love someone is to give them access: to your routines, your self-image, your future plans. That access can be tender, but it’s also a hostage situation in miniature. The person you love becomes the easiest point of entry for fear, jealousy, obligation, and manipulation - by them, by others, or by your own anxious mind. Fitch isn’t arguing that love is bad; she’s admitting that it’s dangerous precisely because it’s real. Real attachments have consequences.

Contextually, the line sits comfortably in Fitch’s broader preoccupation with complicated bonds - especially the way longing and dependence can warp into control. It’s the kind of sentence you hear after someone has learned, the hard way, that love doesn’t just expand your life; it also hands the world a handle to pull you apart.