Quotes About Vulnerability

For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them.

You have this deer-in-headlights look sometimes that I'm sure means you're going to run. Run to me, Amy, not from me.

Baby, I held back today to let you get over all you've been through. But don't let that mislead you. You wouldn't be here if I planned on protecting you from me.

Tell me I helped," I say, and it's a demand. I need to know I can be what he needs, that we can get through the darkness together. "You do more than help. You're the reason I take my next breath." The hoarse declaration whispers against my lips a moment before he kisses me, the tenderness in the touch of his tongue caressing mine telling me more than his words.

My head drops back and I have a fleeting out-of-body moment where I see myself in the window, my hands tied above my head with my legs wrapped around the neck of Chris Merit, while he does delicious things to my body.

She's right, and yet my blood pumps faster, just thinking about having her naked and willingly at my mercy. I can't help but think she's exactly what I need: a challenge. And how sweet her submission would be, because I'd really earned it.

I try to fight what I am feeling but his words play in my head. Anytime soon. Eventually he will leave. We need each other right now, I tell myself, two broken people who have connected in the depths of all our fucked-upness. I wonder why it feels that it isn't enough when only days ago it was exactly what I wanted.

Ella - "I want the truth!" Jayden - "Give me the gun Ella." Ella - "Make me trust you and I will.

I do not know what to do with the emotions inside me. I do not know how to be this close to someone and still hold on to myself.

My favorite, and all macho alpha men like you have a secret softer side and a sweet tooth. It's part of the breed.

Isn't that what we all want? To be with someone who consumes us? Who makes us want to give them all that we are, even though it's terrifying?

What we need more than anything, Amy, is each other. I need you, baby. I need you alive and well, in my bed and in my life. The idea of losing you is torture, but I know you aren't my property. You're the woman who changed me in ways I don't even fully understand.

I moan with his words, with the boldness of this man, with the ease at which he can spin my world around and drive me wild. I am close to the sweet spot, moving against his hand, arching into his touch

When I said you were safe, he says softly, a hint of wickedness in his voice, I meant from everyone but me.

it should be, but you're still hesitating. Why?" "I'm afraid of losing who I am, and being only what he lets me be.

I'm angry at Chris. I'm hurt. "Well, you know what I fear? This is my fear. This moment when, once again, you shut me out and I'm alone. If you were going to leave me alone, you should have walked away before now, when I still knew how to breathe without you.

This is who I am, Sara. I will protect you from everything and everyone else, but I can't protect you from who I am or who we will be if you stay with me.

He wants you. I want you. I can't walk away from you, Amy, and I have this sense that you could bolt at any minute. And yes, you're right. I'm being barbaric. And intense. That's who I am and I can't be anyone but me. When I want something, I go after it. And baby, I want you, and all I can say is you might be smart to run before I get any more into you, but please don't.

You use arrogance and control to hide the real you. But I've seen you. I know you.

I know until he owns me, until he feels like he has real control, we'll never have a real conversation.

without telling him what I don't want to tell him. What I have to tell him.

He stills, and our eyes lock, his narrowing, holding mine captive. "Run to me, not from me.

know I'll never fully control her, and the very thing that would have made her wrong for me in the past is the very thing that makes her what I want and need now. She is freedom. She is passion. She is the safe place where I can be the man I've tried to deny beneath the Master persona, and failed.

I trust this woman more than I trust myself right now. And that scares me in a way I haven't been scared in a very long time.