Natasha Lyonne Quotes

I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.

The parts of people that are the most lovable is usually the thing they're least willing to share: the tender, vulnerable side of people that's endearing and magnetic and lovable - that's the part they hide.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

You can be surrounded by many people but still feel quite lonely if you don't have strong connections and if you feel you can't be yourself with them. Conversely, you can just be around a few people, but feel deeply connected to them.

Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)

I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.

I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all.Caleb doesn't laugh,he doesn't pull away,he doesn't talk .. He just lets me be me. When I settle down,I lean back and witness the mess I've made on his shirt."I made ur shirt all gross," I say between sniffles. "Forget the shirt.What's going on? I could.nt understand a word you mumbled into my chest." Now I'm half laughing and half crying.

You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.

My mistake in my relationships has been to feel that I can do it all on my own: 'I don't need a man.' That is definitely a mistake. Women generally want to feel loved and appreciated. It's something that I am working on every day, trust me! It's a challenge for me to do that.

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

I'm an emotional guy, so I don't have to worry about a girl trying to get me to open up.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

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

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you.

I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how 'time heals' and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more 'feel the pain.'

I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.