Interpersonal Risk Quotes

Don't talk to strangers. Sure, unless you want to meet anyone ever.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.

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.

You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.

Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.

I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?

Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open while knowing full well it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell.

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.