Lisa Kleypas Quotes

I had a very easy time loving an audience. But when it's one-on-one with somebody, all I wanted to do was run away, because maybe they're going to want something from me I can't give, or they're going to hurt me.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

It's hard for me to trust people, and especially girls it's - I don't really like doing the whole opening-up thing with girls.

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?

Most human beings still cannot trust love.

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.

I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn’t understand. How could I tell someone—someone I was really talking to for the first time—everything I was thinking? I couldn’t. It was too soon.

When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.

I'm weak cause I believe you and I'm mad because I love.

I-" said Nick, his voice halting. "I don't mind it as much when - when people touch me. Some people." Mae looked down, and Nick, who looked more relaxed when he'd been stabbed, slowly lifted his hand from his chest and laid it on the tumbled sheets between them, fingers half-curled into his palm. He was still regarding the ceiling with a fixed glare. "Because you trust them not to hurt you?" Mae asked tentatively. "No," Nick said, his voice harsh. "Because I'd let them hurt me.

Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.

When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.

Love is full of anxious fears.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.

I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.

I'm an oversharer but selective about who I share with.