Quotes About Vulnerability

I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun.

What I do for a living means that people look at me. As an actress, you are scrutinized. You are not just dealing with your looks privately, you are on display. I have never been 100 percent comfortable in my own skin. I go through different phases. But I don't feel beautiful all the time, no.

Since I was a kid, I've always been skinny and frail framed. I felt powerless as a child, but I always saw so much power in femininity and female sexuality.

The funny thing is I'm actually really insecure. I have a lot of girl issues - 'I'm not pretty enough,' 'I'm not skinny enough' - but there is a confidence I have in what I can do. I did tend to overcompensate to cover up other insecurities that I have.

I was a skinny 17-year-old.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

And what if---what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you're nothing?

Love can complete you. It can also destroy you.

When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.

What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?

Love, too, has to be learned.

Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

I think to love bravely is the best and accept - as much as one can bear.

Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.

Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.

Love puts all logic to sleep. Otherwise, we wouldn't risk it.

Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it

I have tried to fight the love thing. It's a losing battle.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

Your heart can break at any age.

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.