Kristin Cavallari Quotes

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

I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know; sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.

I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

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

You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.

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 don't know how to be hurt.

It used to hurt me when people said I was hiding in Wales.

I don't like to show my weaknesses.

I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

In the past I was very open and very generous, and I found that it just exploded in my face. A lot of people weren't there for me when I needed them. So I have become a little shell shocked. Subsequently almost paranoid and frightened of people now. Maybe I'm losing out in meeting some marvelous people, but I am doing the only thing I can to save my spirit.

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.

I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.