Quotes About Vulnerability

There's a certain mentality in law enforcement that says you shouldn't be the type of person who takes things personally. If you are, you're weak. Build a wall. I hear that one a lot. The problem is, I'm a person. And when another person calls me on the phone asking for my compassion and my help, I don't want them to have to jump my wall to get it.

And there is nothing more terrifying than realizing the one who knows you best loves you least.

There is nothing more terrifying than realizing that the one who knows you best loves you least, pities you even.

But I can't stand the way you make me feel so good, like, better than I ever felt, and then you tear it all away, like deep down, you don't want me to be happy.

Who can sleep with you in the world?

You ooze joy and she is an open wound, shrill and wan, unfucked and unloved.

I cry and watch Pitch Perfect and sing along with the Barden Bellas. I don't want to be a person who knows the name of a fictional a cappella group in a chick flick but that's what love has done to me.

There's no good place to break someone's heart.

You're lucky to get your heart broke. That just means you have a heart.

We all get our hearts broken. We get fucked up and throw up and we cry and listen to sad songs and say we're never doing that again. But to be alive is to do it again. To love is to risk everything.

you're a writer when we (I) know what you truly are: a performer, an exhibitionist.

That's why you leave the windows open. You don't know how to be alone with yourself. And if you block out the world, there you'd be.

Love is breathing heavily, it's clear she's never talked about this to anyone. You know when someone is opening up a so private, that there isn't a key.

I tell you to slow down and you don't listen and I almost love what a cunt you can be because one of these days you're gonna tie me to a bed and slap me and lord over me the way you lord over all people who get in your way. You're so revved up and I want to play with you and I do.

You look up and now I see a part of you that's new to me, a part that does want to be killed and I don't think you've ever been loved the right way and you don't say anything and I don't say anything and we both know that you're testing me, testing the world. You didn't get off that stage tonight until the last person stopped clapping and you didn't tie your shoelaces and you blamed the world when you tripped.

Well, Joe, I would feel like such a fuckup that I wouldn't even want be with you.

You give it your all, Beck. You just have to be more careful about who you give it to.

everythingship.

A heart doesn't just break for no reason.

feel like a sucker and I want to tear my own head off because I can't believe that I fell for his bullshit. I can't believe I told him things I never tell anyone.

It's a boundaries thing." You're pushing me away on our second date even though I'm Different. Hot. You're afraid of love and it's sad

Just once I'd like to fall for someone who isn't handicapped by narcissism, but it's too late. I love you.

To love is to risk everything.

The Uber driver is unassuming and blank and I wouldn't be surprised if he kills us all.