Avril Lavigne Quotes

opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.

With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable.

You've got my heart in unfamiliar territory. It's never been out here on my sleeve. But here tonight with you it's quite a different story. You bring out a side of me no one has ever seen.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

I reveal too much of myself.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.