Quotes About Vulnerability

You're the greatest risk I've ever taken. And the greatest reward. -- Gideon to Eva

Sabía cómo se sentía: aquellas náuseas en su estómago que se extendían como el cáncer, la rabia, la impotencia y la necesidad de acurrucarse en privado y buscar la fuerza para volver a meter los recuerdos en aquel agujero profundo y oscuro donde seguían viviendo.

Gideon era mío,completamente mío. Pero aun así, una parte de mi mente estaba asombrada de que pudiera tenerlo así, de que estuviera desnudo, en una cama que compartíamos, en un apartamento que compartíamos, de que estuviese dentro de mí, de una parte de mí, aceptando cada pedazo de mi amor y pasión y devolviéndome mucho más.

I was his weakness, when all I wanted was to be his strength

To call either of us virgins would be ridiculous, yet emotionally that was just what we were. Fumbling in the dark and too eager, completely out of our depths and self-conscious, trying to impress and missing all the subtle nuances.

This—he gestured impatiently at himself—is just a fucking shell. You're what drives me, Eva. Can you understand that? You're my heart and soul. If something ever happened to you, it would kill me, too. Keeping you safe is goddamned self-preservation!

I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do. And give me some room to screw up. I've never done this before. There's a learning curve.

I was dying to see how the rest of the night would go, how many more sides of Gideon I'd get to discover. Because I loved this side of the man as much as I loved the powerful businessman in the suit and the dominant lover in my bed and the broken child who couldn't hide his tears and the tender partner who held me when I cried.

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

Gia- Give me a good reason why i should see you. Jax- Beacause, I want you to. Beacause I need to spend time with you. You make me feel... human. Being with you maked me feel like I'm not a complete piece of shit.

It's a brutally sad fact that a number of people simply disappear from your life when you're broken and need them the most.

Everyone comes into a relationship with baggage. How do you make it work when the baggage you're bringing with you was given to you by the person you're hoping to have a relationship with?

I ran when the going got tough, because I was so sure it was all going to end badly. The only control I had was to be the one who left, instead of the one who was left behind.

Gideon e io avevamo segreti che per ora potevamo condividere solo l'uno con l'altra e che ci tenevano isolati e reciprocamente dipendenti. Chi aveva abusato di noi non ci aveva portato via solo l'innocenza, ci aveva portato via anche la libertà.

he knew damn well that no one could possibly love her as completely as he once had. Even the man he was today was incapable of that depth of emotion and connection. She'd killed the innocence in him that had made it possible to love a woman without any thought of self-preservation. He'd been wide open when she cut his heart out and scars had formed, creating a thick shield that he couldn't get past and no woman could get through.

You're afraid of me, I can see it on your face. I'm afraid of me. Afraid of sleeping with you and doing something that will destroy us both.

His hand reached up to his chest and rubbed at the area over his heart as if it hurt him.

He'd never been loved. It was as simple-and complicated-as that. Gideon? Hmm? I pulled back to look at him. Reaching up, I traced the bold arch of his bow. I love you.

Cat de profunda poare sa devina o poveste de dragoste daca nu cunosti genunile intunecate din sufletul celui pe care-l iubesti?

I'm all yours, honey. Flaws, baggage, and all.

You know the drill, Eva. He's going to keep pushing you away, because he's expecting you to fail him like everyone else has.

Talk it out. Explain what triggered the negative feelings to your partner. Face the trigger and work through it.

I thought I was going to take you to bed, bang the hell out of your insanely sexy body until sunrise, then head home with a smile. But you chewed me up and wrung me out. I couldn't've crawled out of your bed if I'd wanted to and would've begged to stay if you'd tried to kick me out.

He was a man who wanted no complications with his sex and I was a woman who found sex complicated