Brene Brown Quotes

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defences. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you've lost your deposit. It's best if you don't say it.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

If you can't trust, it's harder to love and if you can't love it's harder to be happy.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.