“You hold everything in here, Ai-Ai," she says sternly, pointing to her own heart. "For better or worse. But not everyone is going to guess at what you're thinking like I do. No one is going to know how you feel if you don't tell them. And until you do-- you can never really know what's going to happen.” FeelingsEmotionsVulnerabilityTrue FeelingsAnn LiangThis Time It S RealBeing Vulnerable Book:This Time It's Real Source: This Time It's Real
“This is the closest I have ever gotten to voicing the truth: that I'm afraid. That for a long time now, between maybe the third and fourth move, the fourth or fifth friend I lost along the way, I've suspected that there's something fundamentally unlovable about me. Something that makes it easy for people to forget me the second I leave, to drift out of touch no matter how hard I try to keep them in my life. I've said before that my default setting is loneliness, but maybe I was wrong. Maybe it's really fear.” LoveFriendshipLonelinessFalling In LoveVulnerabilityFear Of LoveAnn LiangThis Time It S RealFear Of Loneliness Book:This Time It's Real Source: This Time It's Real