Lisa Kleypas Quotes

But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

I feel like, since tagging with Cesaro, I've let my guard down.

You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defences. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

If your enemies see this picture of us together, I'm in big trouble.

Trust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt.

You can't stop trusting people just because of a few people.

If anybody can harm you, it's going to be the people who are closest.

I have only put my reputation on the line three times with people, Cesaro being one of them.

You can't always trust people with your heart, but you should still love anyway. That's what I would say.

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

If you betray me, Leta…Kill me. Be kind and don’t let me live in the shadow of your cruelty. I can’t take another blow like that. I’m not that strong. (Aiden)