Quotes About Vulnerability

What happens if a car comes? We die.

I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.

If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life

The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.

I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.

Its oke to be sad. I've been trained to love my darkness

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

I've never been jealous before I met you, it burns, luv. Like silver through my veins. Some nights, watching you with other men on your jobs, I think it will drive me mad. (Bones)

They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

Unbinding the Heart means to really look at the areas in our lives where we withhold our own love from our self and others.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon.