Quotes About Vulnerability

Falling out of a plane was a potentially life-threatening situation where I was an incompetent passenger with no chance of saving myself if I had to. Those were the elements of my ultimate nightmare, and in retrospect I realized I could never have liked it.

You will never regret speaking up and being wrong. But you will if you don't and you're dead right.

She had no doubt the man would kill her. Stupid things went skating through her mind--she'd never told her mother how much she loved her chocolate cupcakes... or Felicia what a kind friend she'd been... or Keith that it was cool and mature that he owned a house, even if it was in Brooklyn.

That's the most mysterious thing about love—it takes hold of you whether you're ready or not." She swallowed. "But it hurts." "It's supposed to. Otherwise, you wouldn't notice.

When you care about someone, they have the power to control you.

up to), she'd simply made a spectacle of herself. And the kicker was, she couldn't explain what had made her do what

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

Heterosexuals often fall into the trap of expecting all their emotional needs to be met by the other person.

Intimacy is not a matter of extending your self-absorption to include someone else. Much more than that, it is a matter of tuning into someone else's reality and risking being changed by that experience.

Intimacy comes alive when you can consciously accept, cope with and even welcome the differences between your inner ideal and the real live person who is sharing your life and perhaps your bed. Someone who is gradually revealed to you with all the surprises, glories, disappointments, human faults and gifts that each of us has in varying measures. And you can accept that. And wish the person well.

he'd slumped beside her. " You can't fear losing me half as much as I fear losing you." It had been a grudging admission; he'd thought her already asleep.

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

I dare to take my foundling hope as bone and drop it in the turbulent rise of your body.

He stayed right where he was, shielding Lily with his body, accepting her violent emotions, and running his hands over skin that was too precious to be marred with so many bruises.

Apparently, I'm a senstive guy. You didn't notice that about me right away?" He moved closer, carefully, slowly encroaching on her space. "I cry at chick flicks and weddings.

See what happens when you have sex with a guy and blow him off? It never ends well to break a guy's heart.

I swear, there's nothing like saving a woman from death twice to make it easy to manipulate her.

Don't even tell me you're going to pull the old 'we both have to be naked' thing to warm you up, she mumbled.

Once we stop asking ourselves to be happy or perfect or anything else other than what is simply true for us in the moment, we can more easily stop asking the same of others as well.

She didn't want her sister to see her crying.

Love, by its very nature, is not secure; we keep wanting to make it so.

This fear manifested in Harvey's self-protective vigilance with the analyst, his continually orchestrating the analytic experience rather than allowing himself to rely on the analyst.

Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.

The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.