Quotes About Vulnerability

I'm driving at the fact that habits of secrecy are damaging things," Hira said in her most professorial voice. "And they underestimate other people's willingness to accept the complicated truths of your life.

who knew everything about her rights and nothing about the fragility of her place in the world.

I'm acting a little crazy, aren't I?" she said. "I'm sorry. Please bear with me. Please." She rested the back of her hand against his cheek, a touch he'd never had from her before

Who made love a heart without arteries and chambers—a castrated organ?

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

Loving and trusting an another person is a reckless thing. Even insane.

To be perfectly honest with you, I think it's reckless to love and trust another person. It's clearly foolhardy. I'd like it very much if the many daredevils who go ahead anyway, enjoyed this book.

I'm pretty open, and when I do interviews, I end up blabbing.

I'm frightened of interviews.

You need that marketing power. You need to go do the interviews. You need to put yourself out there and risk and be open to the fact that people are going to not like you, and they are just going to rip you apart, and whatever you say in an interview can get quoted out of context.

In terms of, like, interviews, I used to struggle a lot with interviews; I never knew what to say.

I think I lose myself in interviews sometimes.

I have done a lot of interviews over the years, so you think I would know how to handle difficult questions, etc. But the truth is, I don't.

Intimacy is a normal part of any relationship, whether it's on television or not.

On 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' you are having a relationship - even though it's short and on camera - and with that comes many things, including intimacy.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

My problem is with intimacy. That's where I have my biggest problems.

There are many different ways to express intimacy - a look, a touch - and I think it enriches the characters and stories when you create those moments and then build on them.