“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”— Mary H.K. Choi, amazon.com
“I'm still working on allowing myself to be imperfect enough to find love.”— Marisa Lascher, nytimes.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