Quotes About Vulnerability

Every relationship worth keeping sustains, at the very least, splintered glazes, hairline fractures, cracks. And aren't these flaws the prerequisites of intimacy?

If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.

Cookie, you have to stop preemptively ending things before they even start. I know you're afraid of making yourself vulnerable, but if you keep impeding things before they even begin, just out of fear, you'll never know. I'd never know joy. Shit damn. I worried she was right. What if I was snapping into screw you, your loss mode too fast? How do you take back, No you're the one who missed? Me and my drama trap doors.

I need a hug from you to make me feel better about the fact I need a hug from you.

Love. She said the word as if she'd never heard it before. What would I do with love? I don't know. Enjoy it? She sighed. It's too dangerous to enjoy. It's kind of like sucking on a poisonous thorn and trying to enjoy the flavor. Not that easy.

people, with their faults and ambiguities and weaknesses, and plumbing.

And if you were part of a group there was always the chance that the predator would take the next guy, not you.

A broken heart is better than a whole one where love has never crept in.

All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.

Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?

And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.

Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

I was last. Sam walked up and held me for a long time. Finally she whispered in my ear. She said a lot of wonderful things about how it was okay that i wasn't ready last night and how she would miss me and how she wanted me to take care of myself while she was gone. You're my bestfriend, was all i could say in return.

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.

I think its bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.

And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.

I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want to them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don't like, I'll tell them.

Go for the knees, throat, and eyes And I did. And I really hurt Sean. And then I started crying.

No se si alguna vez has sentido algo así. Que querrías dormir durante mil años. O simplemente no existir. O no ser consciente de que existes. O algo parecido. Creo que querer eso es muy morboso pero yo lo deseo cuando me pongo así. Por eso estoy intentando no pensar. Solo quiero que todo deje de dar vueltas. Si esto empeora, tendría que volver al medico. Las cosas se están poniendo feas otra vez. Con mucho cariño. Charlie

I read the book again that night because I knew that if I didn't, I would probably start crying again.

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.... So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Parfois, on se réfugie derrière ses pensées pour ne pas avoir à s'impliquer.

Mary Katherine had no way of understanding that her mother was not upset at her seventeen-year-old daughter because she was too relieved that the seventeen-week-old daughter that she remembered nursing hadn't died in that car accident last night. She had no way of knowing that no matter how big children feel, they will always look smaller to their parents.

Então, amanhã, eu vou embora. E não vou deixar que isso aconteça novamente com alguém. Vou fazer o que eu quiser fazer. Eu serei quem eu realmente sou. E vou descobrir o que é isso. Mas agora eu estou aqui com você. E eu quero saber quem você é, o que você precisa e o que você quer fazer.