Quotes About Vulnerability

I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked. I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed.

I'm messing this up. I love you. I should've started with that. I swear I trip up more with you than anybody. I love you, Clare. I always did, but it's different loving who you are now. It's so damn solid. You're so solid, so steady, strong, smart. I love who you are, how you are. I love those boys, you have to know.

If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

Do you think I'd leave you alone when you're twisted up like this? I tell you I love you, and it feels like I broke your heart. No one has ever said that to me. In my life, no one's ever said those words to me. I'm making you a promise right here that you'll hear them from me every day.

It's about us. It's about trust.

She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.

Couples take care of each other, Clare, that's what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.

Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.

I've been happy alone and I've been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.

Love can kick your ass.

Love is very brave.

We're stuck now because you wheedled me into falling in love with you. So we get through whatever there is to get through." He kissed her. "With or without porn.

Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking.

Love, nobody inside it knows how the hell to handle it.

If you don't tell her just that, if you don't give her your heart, Aidan, if you don't bare it for her and give her the time to trust what she sees there, you'll never have her.

Love,' she murmured as she washed. 'Nobody inside it knows the hell how to handle it.

I'm used to keeping things to myself, it's habit.And then...And then I kept things from you because the harder I fell in love with you,the more terrified I was. Look,damn it, I didn't want to depend on anyone for- He broke off to drag a hand through his hair. For what? For being there when I needed them, he said on a long breath.

Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know you've had your shields hacked down until you're defenseless. It's the type. You're not in love with a type, you're in love with a man, Penny corrected. Or you're not.

I've fallen pretty deep in...care with you.

All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.

I'm wanting the hell out of you. Day and night. Her voice was throaty now, dark with need. I guess that makes it handy, since I want the hell out of you too. It doesn't scare you? Nothing about you and me scares me. And what if I said I want you to let me do anything I want to you? Everything? Her heart fluttered to her throat, but her eyes stayed steady. I'd say who's stopping you?

Shane: Aren't you going to ask me where I've been, who I've been with? Rebecca: Are you trying to hurt me? Shane: Maybe I am. Maybe I'm trying to see if I can. Rebecca:You can.

It isn't easy looking in the mirror and accepting that you were missing some element, some thing that kept a person you wanted from loving you.

could never explain it to anyone, the way a fear can live inside you. The way it dictates how you think and how you act, what you say, what you don't dare say.