“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…”— Junot Dìaz, identitytheory.com
“I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I’d rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.”— Andrea Gibson, facebook.com
“Make sure that the love is worth the price of a broken heart.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“It is a strange thing to nourish what could kill you in the hopes it does not kill you.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“If you really want to live your life to the fullest and realize your greatest potential, you must be willing to run the risk of making some people mad. People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!”— Iyanla Vanzant, amazon.com
“She’s confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing, so she won’t commit to anything.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“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.”— William S. Burroughs, goodreads.com
“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com
“How far can you go down the wrong path before you can’t get back on the right one?”— Carolee Dean, amazon.com