Quotes About Vulnerability

Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu kuin sydämeni puhuisi sinulle koko ajan.

I intimated for the first time the possibility of destruction, the destruction of what I had built; not, I assure you, for his sake, but for the possibility he embodied – which had never once occurred

Fear is a habit like any other, and habits kill what is essential in ourselves. I was left with a kind of blankness, Jeffers, from those years of being afraid.

Like love, I said, being understood creates the fear that you will never be understood again.

Como en el amor, continué, que te entiendan crea el temor a que no vuelvan a entenderte jamás.

What was striking was the sheer negative capability of their former intimacy:

My daughter emanates unprocessed human need where the world is at its most civilised;

Love is more respectable, more practical, more hardworking than I had ever suspected, but it lies close to the power to destroy. I have never before remotely felt myself to possess that power, and I am as haunted by it as if it were a gun in a nearby drawer.

Running away from love is never any good at all, to our sort. It only deepens the feeling, and it's better to stay and wear it down.

a brew of tea or cocoa followed, with toddlings to the cupboard and a setting out of a bright canister. Any fool can offer you champagne. But if you can win a lonely, diffident old woman, living in her memories, to give you of her tea, then and not till then have you triumphed.

Stop" "I've tried. I can't. These past few days, not knowing if you were okay have been hell." -"I'm okay." "I'm not.

He placed his hands on the sides of her face and looked into her eyes."You're not some woman I picked up in a bar, Chelsea. You're not a one-night stand. Don't sneak out on me.

His lids lowered and he brushed her cheek with the tips of his fingers. "What if I fall in love with you?" She turned her face into his palm. "You won't.

For the first time since she'd pieced her heart back together, she felt a small tug at one of the strings. She dropped her hands to her sides and took a step back. The one word she'd waited to hear could destroy her carefully constructed life. "Don't." Don't make me forget. Don't make it better. Don't make me love you again. - Autumn Haven

You're not some woman I picked up in a bar, Chelsea. You're not a one-night stand. Don't sneak out on me.

Don't leave." He leaned his forehead against the door next to hers. "I'm a real bastard, I know, but don't leave, Lola.

When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

His hand fell to his side. "Honey, come here." She shook her head and took another step backward. "I don't trust you." "Baby, you don't trust yourself.

If you want to cry go ahead. Son, there are just some time in a man's life when he has to let it out.

Ova je veza osuðena na to da zavrÅ¡i slomljenim srcem, ali možda, bude li oprezna, možda joj nece ukrasti cijelo srce. Bude li pazila, možda uspije sacuvati barem komadic.

She wasn't his kind of woman, and she didn't want to fall in love with a man who would break her heart like a Dorito.

Chelsea, I knew when you showed up on my porch that you were going to be trouble. You were bossy and annoying and you brought sunshine into a very dark time in my life. You saved me when I didn't even know I needed saving. I love you for that. I will always love you for that." He raised her hand to his lips and kissed the backs of her knuckles. "Please say you'll stay in my life and make trouble with me forever." -Mark Bressler

I couldn't stand the embarrassment of arguing. I couldn't bring myself to beg for him to want me, to love me the way that I loved him. And I couldn't risk losing him altogether. I had to keep him in my life, even if it was just as a friend. He was my world. I needed him. I still do.

I gave you so much of myself," I say, "and you wasted me.