Quotes About Vulnerability

She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.

but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything, and she says calmly... glaring at me,If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.

MANY YEARS AGO I REALIZED THAT A BOOK, a novel, is a dream that asks itself to be written in the same way we fall in love with someone: the dream becomes impossible to resist, there's nothing you can do about it, you finally give in and succumb even if your instincts tell you to run the other way because this could be, in the end, a dangerous game—someone will get hurt.

Todo el mundo tiene meido. Pero si nos mantenemos unidos, si intentamos estar disponibles para los otros, ya no tendremos miedo.

and before I can stop it I find myself almost dazzled and moved that I might have the capacity to accept, though not return, her love.

I mean I tell her I'm sensitive. I told her I was freaked out by the Challenger accident—what more does she want?

This forced you to look again at the people who raised them, coddling them with praise and trying to shield them from the grim sides of life, which might well have created children who, as adults, appeared highly confident, competent and positive but at the hint of darkness or negativity often became paralyzed and unable to react except with disbelief and tears—You just victimized me!—and retreated, in effect, into their childhood bubbles.

I mean I tell her I'm sensitive. I told her I was freaked out by the Challenger accident—

I feel naked, suddenly tiny. My mouth tastes metallic, then it gets worse. My vision: a winter road. But I'm left with one comforting thought: I am rich—millions are not.

Love cannot be trusted.

I want to fuck you again, I tell her, but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything, and she says calmly, taking her mouth off my limp shrunken dick, glaring at me, If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.

Robby intentaba no gemir pero incluso borracho detecté el miedo en su voz. Carraspeé, con los ojos todavía cerrados. - ¿Qué quieres decir? - Creo que algo está subiendo las escaleras. Algo está arañando la puerta de mi cuarto. Según Robby por lo visto contesté: - Estoy seguro de que no es nada. Vuelve a la cama. - No puedo, papá - replicó Robby -. Tengo miedo. (Bueno, y yo. Bienvenido al club. Vete acostumbrando, porque no se pasa.)

The cross calls humanity to stop trying to make God's kingdom happen through coercion and force, which are always self-defeating in the end, and instead, to welcome it through self-sacrifice and vulnerability.

we pose a serious threat to the very existence of humanity.

knowing that people may not want to hear what I really feel needs to be written

When I fall in love, I fall hard and fast. That's why I'm careful about what I get myself into.

It flattered me that he found my story intriguing. I didn't understand then, or maybe I was too young to realize, that men can be like that about things they want to own. That one way to control someone is to learn everything about them, so you always have ammunition to use when you need it.

A man may fight the greatest enemy, take the longest journey, survive the most grievous wound -- and still be helpless in the hands of the woman he loves.

the most dangerous enemy is not the man with the most weapons, but the man with the least to lose.

Men who are fundamentally weak look upon threats as the ultimate expressions of power. Men who are truly powerful, however, view threats as yet another vulnerability. —BARON VLADIMIR HARKONNEN, Advice for Assassins

If you do not face your weaknesses, how do you know where to be strong?

The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their doubts and fears.

We all have an innate ability to recognize flaws and weaknesses in others. It takes much greater courage, however, to recognize the same flaws in ourselves.

The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their doubts and fears. —Bene Gesserit Axiom