Quotes About Vulnerability

When I got off him, I spat the blood that was swamping my mouth in to his face, I looked down at him and it really looked like he was dying… shit! The ambulance arrived in about a minute and they got an oxygen mask straight on him and I could see the life draining out of him. You see, this is the problem; we are only human and flesh and blood.

As a child, I was attractive to paedophiles. I suppose being indecently assaulted when I was 13 years old should have warned me that there were some weird and dangerous men out there, but I had got over that episode in my life.

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. the new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.

I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.

Never have I been so much alone I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird alone upon the great river, the servant of the gods.

The best relationship you ever know will be the one in which you love each other for your faults—not despite them.

I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.

What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have.

Look after my heart - I've left it with you.

Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you

Of course, you'd warm up faster if you took your clothes off.

Boys don't cry very often, because it's so important to be tough. But sometimes their heart just starts aching; then they hide somewhere and let it all pour out, which helps—unless they're really frightened.

writing is about developing the capacity to expose yourself on the page, if not your life story at the very least your prevailing anxieties and the people who caused them.

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

But I come to stories in the naked hope they will fuck me up .

Do patnácti let v?ku umírají (chlapci) t?ikrát ?ast?ji než d?v?ata, a to z nejr?zn?jších p?í?in - ale nejvíce následkem úrazu, násilí a pokusu o sebevraždu.

I don't think we really had made the leap in our mind that we are no longer safe behind these two great oceans," Armitage said later.9

The USS Cole was a billion-dollar command and attack ship equipped with computer-linked radar that could follow more than one hundred airplanes, ships, and missile targets at once. It had relatively little defense, however, against three suicide bombers in a thousand-dollar skiff.

We're all a bit of a dick. It's the human condition. Nothing to be afraid of.

You touch a safe the way you touch a woman," he

Nobody is safe. Ever. Anywhere. I

Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.