Ransom Riggs Quotes

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

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

He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.

I've never let my guard down by saying, 'I don't need to be hedged.'

I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

I did have an emo phase. It was sort of like armor for me.

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

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.

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

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.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.