Neal Shusterman Quotes

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

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.

Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

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.

You got to be able to love again. You got to give everybody a fair chance. Everybody deserves a fair chance. I'm talking about building that wall, coming out of a relationship and feeling like, well, I'm going to hold back. You turn into your ex. When you find a person that's worth letting your wall down , and you feel it in your stomach, just don't fight it. Just let it happen.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

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

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.

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

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

There's a danger in loving somebody too much, and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.

To love is to be vulnerable.

would you dare to love me?

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

I believe love opens people up.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.