Quotes About Vulnerability

It was the nature of our relationship to be lusty and emotional, earthy and raw. The trust that held us together also opened us up to each other in ways that made us both vulnerable and dangerous. And it would get worse before it got better.

His gaze was soft on my face, filled with a sudden tenderness that made my throat tight. You're the greatest risk I've ever taken. He pressed his lips gently to mine. And the greatest reward. Chapter 6, pg 100

If you don't open up, we're going to lose each other down the road

You didn't see him watching you dance with your dad. His eyes got all shiny. I thought he was going to cry. And on the way up here, in the elevator, he tried to play it off, but I could totally tell he was nervous.

You and me on a deserted tropical island where you'd be perpetually naked and I could slide into you at any moment. I set one hand on my hip and shot him a look. "Sunburned and bowlegged. Sexy.

Gideon was a man who'd lived an entirely solitary life, and yet he'd accepted me into it so completely that he could envision a future I was afraid to imagine. I was so scared I'd only be setting myself up for a heartbreak I couldn't survive.

Are you sleeping with anyone? ....... Because I want to fuck you, Eva. I need to know what's standing in my way, if anything.

There was something sweet in watching him pull himself back together, restoring the façade he wore for the world while I knew at least a little of the man beneath it.

Don't take that tone with me, Gideon. I'm tired of being an open book for you while you hoard all your secrets.

He engulfed me, his body so much bigger and harder. I felt safe in his embrace, cherished and protected. Nothing could touch or hurt me when he was holding me. I wanted him to feel that same sense of security with me. I needed him to know he could drop his guard, take a breath, and I could protect us both. I

The thing about nightmares is that you can't prepare for them. They sneak up on you when you are most vulnerable, wreaking havoc and mayhem when you are totally defenseless. And they don't always happen while you're sleeping

I'm an asshole to everyone else in my life. You are the one thing I cherished. Don't make me stop

Angel, if I needed you more I couldn't function.

Eva." He sighed and shoved a hand through his hair. "I spend a quarter of every day inside you. When you set limits outside that I can't help but see them as arbitrary.

I was always running. My recovery was so fragile that I'd learned to protect it at all costs. When something threatened my stability, I ditched it.

Who do you think monsters marry, you stupid bitch?" I walked back to her. "Pretty little breakable girls? Or other monsters?

Because when you're flat on your back you're not on your feet.

Angel, if you're not missing the feel of my cock inside you, I need to step it up, not hold back.

He rubbed the spot over his chest that ached for Jessica. "And her regard will never alter or diminish. She knows the worst there is to know about me, yet she loves me in spite of my mistakes. No … I would say perhaps she loves me because of them; because of how they've shaped me.

Era un milagro haberlo encontrado, que pudiera hacerme sentir así, que pudiese amar a un hombre de una forma tan profunda, completa y sexual con todo el bagaje que arrastraba. Y que pudiese ofrecerle a cambio el mismo refugio.

he pulled her hand back up and set it over his heart) This tightening in my chest that you can't see? That's something I've never felt before. You've got something no one else has. You don't have a shortcoming, sweetheart. You have an advantage.

I knew what I risked by loving a mortal, but I wouldn't change how I felt about Lindsay even if I'd been given the option to. She was everything to me. The reason I pushed through every day and looked forward to every night. The reason I might one day lose my wings.

Your objections. It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me.

He could say with his body what he couldn't with words, and my lust for him was how I proved my faith in us, something he needed to feel connected to me.