Quotes About Vulnerability

Police officers put up barbed wire around their hearts to protect them.

Everyone, at nineteen, is dumb and beautiful in equal parts...

my mother always said-once a man, twice a child! she explained thus:- a man will become, and act almost like an infant child, although fully grown as an adult, if and when certain diseases in life strikes him. He crumbles easily.

We need to talk," she sputtered. Adam winced. He was sure there weren't any other words in the world that would strike fear into a man of any species as quickly as those four. A man never said them.

The tallest blade of grass is the surest to be cut.

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

I've never really done this. Now I know what scared is.

For the heart is not a candle that, once lit, can be extinguished at will, but a fragile, foolish thing, all too easily wounded, all too slow to heal.

But love him? No. She was broken somewhere inside. She couldn't love like other people.

Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.

When I am on my own, I get nervous and have butterflies.

With '3 Mics', there's nothing I'm talking about that's too hot button.

My logic used to be if I get angry at my boyfriend, he could say, 'Well, if that thing I do that I don't want to stop doing makes you mad, I don't need to be with you. Bye!' And then he'd leave me. Forever.

Coming into 'The Bachelorette,' I always led with a calculated mind and not an open heart.

Before I came out, the thought of someone calling me gay, even when I knew very well that I was, was petrifying.

Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.

I don't like working in front of a camera.

If I put cameras on you every day, you're gonna be emotional and nothing will be perfect. You have to allow people to be people.

There's nothing sexy about cancer.

I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'