Quotes About Vulnerability

All my life I waited for someone who would say things like that to me. And for someone I didn't feel alone in the presence of. Someone who understood. Someone who would make me feel like it wasn't just me against the world.

I was looking for someplace to store all the things I was feeling - the friction, the contradictions, the unmerciful truth - but my heart, my soul, my eyes and ears and even my toes were locking their doors. They wouldn't let me in. For safety reasons. I had no choice but the throw the feelings away.

Maybe I'm weak for music men. Maybe I'm weak, period. But I couldn't deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.

Eliza, my pancreas.

I went home feeling so unbearably alone I actually thought there was a possibility I could drop dead before the night was over.

There's nothing like heartbreak to crack a person wide open. But the cracks can sometimes act as reservoirs too.

Some people think art is pretending, but to me it's the opposite. It's the one place where you can't pretend.

Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.

I have dinner with you at least three times a week. You think now that you've licked ice cream from my belly button that's going to stop?

Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost. We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds, until I said: "Don't swear off all fruit just because you ate one bad apple.

the power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the deepest cuts lie.

Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.

Why are the ones who need the most shelter always the ones left out in the rain?

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.

How easily it can all be washed away. Power, happiness, even life itself. It only takes an instant, a single unguarded instant. And it's gone.

But everyone has secrets, don't they? But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Secrets can be a burden. I mean, once you know something, that's it. You can never un-know it. You can never take that knowledge back. The innocence you had before, it's gone. You shouldn't inflict that on someone unless you really have to. Especially not someone you love.

To love is to take a risk. And life without love is no life at all.

I had a very easy time loving an audience. But when it's one-on-one with somebody, all I wanted to do was run away, because maybe they're going to want something from me I can't give, or they're going to hurt me.

The most important thing I've discovered is that I love her best when I'm not scared of her, when I'm not worrying myself crazy because she's a girl and I'm a boy and I don't understand all there is to understand about her, or because I'm afraid I haven't been a good enough [dad]. Fear gets in the way of love, and I've discovered that fear, and not hate, is the opposite of love.

But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.

I want to walk beside you in the drizzle and say you can move in with me tonight, right away, even though this time they'll probably evict me and although I'm moving out in three weeks anyway

But that was Key West. It searched out and exploited the hairline crack in each person's stability and crowbarred it open.

Without her, he was blind, deaf, and dumb.