Sarah Dessen Quotes

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

My heart is very much alive and in your hands. Do your best not to destroy it. You are very lucky it isn't it my hands... The only thing I know to do with hearts is incinerate them! Ouch!

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

I believe love opens people up.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams.

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment before he laid his face in the curve of her neck. The whole world was so real it hurt. Kami whispered into Jared's hair, "I'm always on your side.

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

You know," I told him on our wedding night, "I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you." And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart.

Sometimes when we touch..The honesty's too much, and I have to close my eyes and hide. I want to hold you till I die, 'til we both break down and cry, I want to hold you till this fear in me subsides.

Remember to let her into your heart.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting hurt.