“neither, adv.: I am worried I will try too hard and lose you. I am worried that I will try too little and lose you.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.”— Beau Taplin, goodreads.com
“I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.”— Alexandra Bracken, amazon.com
“I’m afraid of a lot of things, but mostly, most sincerely, I am afraid of being completely unraveled by you, and you finding nothing you want in here.”— L.M. Dorsey, amazon.com
“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'm afraid to love you. I'm afraid that you'll leave and that I'll go back to being alone again. Only it will be a hundred times worse because I'll know what I'm missing. I can't...I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you, and I don't know how. Teach me...Please teach me. Don't let…”— Mia Sheridan, amazon.com
“Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who’s precious to you.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me…We can’t deny it. You’re always going to leave.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love o…”— John Lennon, youtube.com