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Quotes About Vulnerability

Quin lay down next to me and buried his face in my neck. I felt everything hidden and heavy inside him collapse in my arms. His hot tears joined with mine."I need you.""I know, " I answered.
~ Ellery A. Kane, Prophecy
I'd rather risk screwing up with you than not even try.
~ J. Kenner
You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
If you love someone so much in your life, Then they will surely hurt & destroy you from Inside..!!
~ shady_N
My nose is broken, " I said. Damn that Dumbo. Made me self-conscious."My ankle's broken, " he said."Then I'll come to you.
~ Rick Yancey
If it's convenient to love you, you're lying to someone about who you are or what you need.
~ Agnostic Zetetic
I want you. But I'm scared to say it out loud. And it sucks because I've always been someone who always says things out loud.
~ Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
When it comes to youI can't help myselfI've never been thisattachedto someone's flaws
~ Audrey Rey
A Relationship Should Come With An ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK Sign.
~ Cyc Jouzy
As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.
~ Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
No one else was as close and as open, No one else so boiled my blood, Even he, who consigned me to torment, Even he, who caressed and forgot.
~ Anna Akhmatova, White Flock
I feel such poignancy when I look back and see this image of myself, this unworldly young woman, trying so hard to please, yet not wanting anyone to come near.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
You're not fine. You could die if you keep this up." "Ah, the beautiful always die young.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
I felt powerless, like a carp on the cutting board ready to be sliced into sashimi.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.
~ Miranda July
Ne uitam amândoi în dragoste, ca doi bolnavi care-È™i alin? durerile.
~ Mircea Eliade
It's possible that my insecurity is the very quality that connects me to everyone else. I don't hide my vulnerability. I don't know how.
~ Miriam Margolyes
Between 2005-2009, more than 300 girls and women of Molotschna were made unconscious and attacked in their own beds. On average, an attack occurred every three or four days. Finally, Leisl Neustandter forced herself to stay awake night after night until she caught a young man prying open her bedroom window, holding a jug of belladonna spray in one hand. Leisl and her adult daughter wrestled the man to the ground and tied him up with baler twine.
~ Miriam Toews
I feel safe in the car, alone and protected. I can see people milling about in the parking lot but they can't see me. Well, they can but they think I'm insane so they look away which is the same as being invisible.
~ Miriam Toews
In the very early morning light I saw Nora and my mother sleeping, finally, on their sides and face to face, holding hands, all four hands entwined like a skein of wool, like a mating ball of garter snakes, so that whatever was inside them would be very well protected.
~ Miriam Toews
several of the people we love are people we also fear.
~ Miriam Toews
Algunes de les persones que estimem també són persones de qui tenim por.
~ Miriam Toews
You are ten weeks inside, the size of a kumquat, a nice dirty-sounding word, your head half the size of your body, your hands covering your heart. Protecting your heart, as though we are able to do that.
~ Miriam Toews
Someone has been sawing off all the branches of the tree outside my dining room window. I like to sit in my T-shirt and panties at the dining room table first thing in the morning and listen to the uneaten mourning doves and write. The branches covered virtually the entire window and prevented the neighbors from seeing me sitting here in my underwear. But now the branches are coming away one by one and revealing me to my neighbors slowly like a puzzle taking shape.
~ Miriam Toews