Quotes About Vulnerability

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

The man who couldn't look anyone in the eyes was making himself do it, no matter what the pain. He was giving her a gift, the greatest one he could, straight from his heart.

I don't know anything about life. I only know how to run." Daniel reached his tanned and callused hands out to her. "Then grab hold of me and hang on. We're both scared about where this will end up, and when the hurting will come. If the hurting comes, it will be bad, I already know that. But hang on to me, and we'll find out together, all right?

I'm not here to talk about my wife," he said. Ainsley's eyes were filled with anger for him. "Very well, what did you come here to talk about?" Cameron touched the top button of her dull gray afternoon dress and forced his voice to soften "I came to ask how many buttons you'll undo for me today.

Ian closed his eyes. Beth watched emotions flicker across his face, the uncertainty, the stubbornness, the raw pain he'd lived with for so long. He didn't always know how to express his emotions, but that didn't mean he didn't feel them deeply.

But she couldn't read Mr. Mackenzie. He didn't let anyone behind his barriers, not easily. But when he did . . . When he did, worlds would unfold.

I'm beat up and broken, and scared of everything that's going to come next, but just sitting here with you is making me better. So I'm going to hold on, all right? When you want me to let go and leave you alone, you tell me, but not … Not right now.

Mary dragged in a long breath as the kiss eased to an end, but she wouldn't look at him. Her cheeks were red, her eyes downcast. Mal put his hand under her chin, gently tilting her head up. "Don't feel shame, love. There's nothing shameful about kissing a man because you enjoy it." The look in her eyes when she finally met his gaze wasn't shame. It was defiance, and fear.

For crissakes, Talia," Adam rumbled at her neck. "Let it come. I'm not afraid of the dark.

As Mary emerged, he shut the door for her then pulled her into the circle of his arms. He held her, not speaking, his head bowed to her shoulder. They were so fragile, Mary realized, these men. In spite of their physical strength, their bluster, the ear-splitting loudness of their voices, they were vulnerable. Broken if struck the wrong way. They needed someone to love them, to care for them, to keep them whole.

Is this what love feels like?" he whispered to her. "I don't like it, my Beth. It hurts too much." Beth

She told me not to even try. Said you were... as frigid as a nun and as cold as ice." That one actually stung.

What was it like?" His words were so low she barely caught them. "Explain to me what loving feels like, Beth. I want to understand.

Hart caressed the letters of baby Graham's name. "Mac likes to say, We're Mackenzies. We break what we touch. But this little Mackenzie… he broke me.

Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.

It was true. I wasn't good with liking someone. my instinct was total self-preservation: show no sign of weakness. This was my pathetic way of being shy.

Now I lay facedown on the bed, sobbing for the woman who once slept here not knowing that someday one of her worst fears would come true

It's fascinating, how they managed to wound each other so easily and accidentally.

Kiss me, Joe. I won't shatter… Seriously, Joe, you can touch me without breaking me. In fact, you might even put me a little bit back together.

Medan Luna och jag långsamt gick tillbaka till cellen torkade den manliga våta saliven på min kind. Jag kunde känna fläcken i ansiktet i flera timmar efteråt, som om hans kyss hade lämnat ett märke på mig. Att få en kyss av en man i ett kvinnofängelse är en gåva som slår alla födelsedagspresenter och julklappar. Det är bättre än en rosen bukett. Det är bättre än en varm dusch

Anjoli had the look of a deer that was told that if it smiled hard enough, the oncoming truck would stop.

Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that's who you're going to be rejecting.