When people hold you in high esteem it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.
You don't have to twist my arm to work.
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love of will of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.