“She’s confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing, so she won’t commit to anything.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. If anything, it makes you weaker. Because you’re doing it out of fear.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I have always loved everything about you. Even what I didn’t understand. And I have always known that, at heart, I would have you no different. But most people don’t know how to love. Nothing is enough for them. They must have their dreams. It’s the only thing they do well. Dreaming. They dream up o…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I’ll never fall in love again… it’s like having two souls at the same time.”— Gabriel García Márquez, amazon.com
“Maybe that’s worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we’re too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.”— Mitch Albom, 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
“Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I’m scared you will realize I’m just bones and questions and leave me for something solid.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradicspoems.tumblr.com
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”— Eleanor Roosevelt,, myhero.com
“People who like to be in control of things can have a hard time with intimacy. Intimacy is anarchic and mutual and definitionally incompatible with control. You seek to control things because you are afraid.”— Jonathan Franzen, mbird.com
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I don’t want to be so scared all the time. So alone. I want to believe something can be worth it. Worth the pain. Worth the risk.”— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com
“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.’”— Madeleine L'Engle, amazon.com