Jessica White Quotes

For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look.

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.

I'm a little bit tough because I can't afford to get my heart broken.

People choose to shut themselves off and build a load of defense mechanisms and not let anybody in because it's easier that way. You don't get hurt, and there's less risk involved if you build this hard shell.

I've figured out over the years, you can only hurt me if I love you; if I don't know you, I really don't care.

Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people's response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.