Lisa Kleypas Quotes

If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

I wish I were stronger and more secure in myself so that I could really spend my life with a guy like Lenny. Because he has a different kind of strength than Joshie. He has the strength of his sweet tuna arms. He has the strength of putting his nose in my hair and calling it home. He has the strength to cry when I go down on him. Who IS Lenny? Who DOES that? Who will ever open up to me like that again? No one. Because it's too dangerous. Lenny is a dangerous man. Joshie is more powerful, but Lenny is much more dangerous.

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.

When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel. When people first fall in love they're more willing to do this because they're still getting to know each other and dependency has not yet set in. As soon as it does, though, people often stop sharing their true feelings out of fear of loss.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

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

Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape.

Sometimes men and women have trouble with just being vulnerable.

Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

I have to let myself be vulnerable in order to have a good marriage. That's something I'm really going to have to work on. A lot of times I'm really guarded because of what I do for a living, what I've done in my life.

Let my love open the door To yourheart.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?

Where did I surrender, can you tell me how and when. I'm the one who's always in control. Leading with my heart like there is nothing to defend as I lay it all out on the line body and soul. I've never let another in so soon.

I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!