Linwood Barclay Quotes

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

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

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it's also the most satisfying thing.

It's really hard for me to be open and be completely honest with a stranger.

I don't feel the need to share the truth with people that I don't know.

I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

My relationship with Nayan is too personal to talk about. I am not comfortable sharing it.

You have one heart, and once you give it away, it's gone. If you wear it on your sleeve, a lot of people are there to take advantage of it.

Oh yeah, 100%, I've been an open book. Even my whole career, I've kind of been like an open book.

I don't really like being vulnerable.

I'm very private about my private life. I don't like to go into too much depth about it.

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

My life and my legs have been an open book.

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

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

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.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.