Quotes About Vulnerability

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.

I know I would crumble if I lost you.

I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.

The way he's watching me makes me feel needed like no one's ever been able to make me feel. In a way, he makes me feel necessary. Like my existence alone is necessary for his survival.

Okay, " he said, his breath hitching, his hands shaking like hell as he pried her arms from around his neck and set her away., Darcy, I want you so bad I'm afraid I'm going to hurt you.

Lucien?""Yes, Alice?"Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him— unpredictable, dangerous as he was. "I think it's real.

Anything could happen while the dead slept. Which was why some would say a woman shouldn't tread alone through a cemetery at 2:55 on a Tuesday morning in April.

I have only one heart to give and one mind to lose. May I someday find a woman who will take them both.

Leather and tattoos, they were his cover, and she wondered what she'd find when she unwrapped him.

Are you going to put some clothes on?" she blurted out."No. Are you going to take yours off?""No.""Right. Of course not.

You strip away every ounce of civility in me, Selene" - Levi

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?

You're not so tough. No tougher than the man whose blood will spill from your veins.

How am I making you feel?"She considered the answer. "Like all my nerve endings are on fire. Like I want more, but I don't exactly know how to ask for what I want." She swallowed. "Or maybe I do.

There's no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

Authentic men aren't afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they're sad, admit it when they're wrong, and ask for help when they need it.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.