Quotes About Vulnerability

I think maybe I was scared." My breath catches. "Of what?" "Of disappointing you." Peter looks away. "I know sex is a big deal to you. I didn't want to mess it up. You're so innocent, Lara Jean. And I have all this shit in my past.

And that's when I start to cry again, because that's when it finally feels real.

I bet if I did ever kiss you again, I wold definitely catch something, and it wouldn't be love. It would be an STD! Lara Jean Song

I don't want to be afraid anymore. I want to be brace. I want....life to start happening. I want to fall in love and I want a boy to fall in love with me back.

see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you. And

When I write, I hold nothing back. I write like he'll never read it. Because he never will. Every secret thought, every careful observation, everything I've saved up inside me, I put it all in the letter. When I'm done, I seal it. I address it, and then I put it in my teal hatbox.

Does this vision feel in line with what you were thinking?

That time, I slept in his room with him. We watched TV until he fell asleep, because he liked to sleep with the television on in the background. I couldn't fall asleep like that, so I waited until he did and then I turned it off.

L'amore fa paura: cambia, può svanire. Quello fa parte del rischio. Ma io non voglio più avere paura. Voglio essere coraggiosa

You can't be close to someone, not truly, with secrets in between you.

If they don't talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they'll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.

I don't want to be a girl who gets her heart broken, but I also don't really want to break boys' hearts.

I cannot believe that John Ambrose McClaren read that letter. I didn't remember it to be so...naked. With so much...yearning. God, why do I have to be a person who yearns so much?

In the contract we said we wouldn't break each other's hearts. What if we do it again?" Fiercely he says, "What if we do? If we're so guarded, it's not going to be anything. Let's do it fucking for real, Lara Jean. Let's go all in. No more contract. No more safety net. You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it.

we're about to get to know each other very well.

Tears burn my eyes. "I'm just gonna go to sleep now," and I rest my head on Chris's shoulder, and I cry.

more than that. I don't want to be afraid anymore. I want to be brave. I want . . . life to start happening. I want to fall in love and I want a boy to fall in love with me back.

Love is scary; it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk.

There's no way to protect yourself against heartbreak, Lara Jean. That's just a part of life.

God, I've cried twice today! It's so un-me.

I've had the going-to-school-naked-forgot-to-study-for-an-exam-in-a-class-I-never-signed-up-for combo.

Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt. -Margery Williams

I'd hoped I wouldn't cry, because I knew Margot wouldn't, and it's lonely to cry alone, but I can't help it.

Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt...it's all a part of being in love.