Richard Rodriguez Quotes

I don't really like to share deep issues or anything like that. I have a problem with that. I don't really like to talk about some stuff.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

I'm talking about personal stuff so I think people are on my side.

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

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"... "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.

Sometimes, it's easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It's like there's less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn't know you.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

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.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

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

Britney: My love doesn't scare me. Other people's love scares me.

Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking

Most human beings still cannot trust love.

I feel very vulnerable when it has to do with family.