Ann Brashares Quotes

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear. What makes me fearful. I feel vulnerable when I release material, my work, to the world, and I have no control over the outcome. Those are very vulnerable moments. I'm getting married on Friday.

The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.

Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

Writing is inherently scary.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.

Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.