Quotes About Vulnerability

our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.

Qué nos pasó? Tal vez estamos en el mundo para buscar el amor, encontrarlo y perderlo, una y otra vez. Con cada amor volvemos a nacer, y con cada amor que termina se nos abre una herida... Estoy llena de cicatrices.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

She felt that everything was made of glass, as fragile as a sigh

Nothing can grow in the shade of secrets, she would say, love needs light and space to flourish.

Todos tenemos demonios en los rincones oscuros del alma, pero si los sacamos a la luz, los demonios se achican, se debilitan, se callan y al fin nos dejan en paz.

He knew that her body was his to engage in all the acrobatics he had learned in the books he kept hidden in a corner of his library, but with Clara even the most abominable contortions were like the thrashings of a newborn; it was impossible to spice them up with the salt of evil or the pepper of submission.

Tenía la ternura torpe de quien nunca ha sido amado y debe improvisar.

Si escribo algo, temo que suceda, si amo demasiado a alguien temo perderlo; sin embargo no puedo dejar de escribir ni de amar...

Very few old folk are happy, Irina. Most of them are poor, aren't healthy, and have no family. It's the most fragile and difficult stage of life, more so than childhood, because it grows worse day by day, and there is no future other than death.

El hombre del amor calcinante, de los inventos eróticos, de la risa, las bromas y los juegos entre las sábanas, de la urgencia y la voracidad y la alegría, de las confidencias susurradas en la pausa entre dos abrazos, de los besos interminables y la intimidad más delirante, ese hombre sólo existía para ella.

There is no worse suffering than to love with fear

El afecto del comienzo evolucionó en la medida en que maduraban, pero nunca hablaban de eso. Carecían de palabras para describir ese sentimiento y temían que al hacerlo se rompiera como el cristal. Expresar su relación en palabras significaba definirla, ponerle limites, reducirla; si no se mencionaba permanecía libre e incontaminada.

Era ella quien se abría como una sandía madura, roja, jugosa, tibia, ella quien sudaba esa fragancia penetrante de mariscos, ella quien lo mordía, lo arañaba, lo chupaba, gemía, agonizaba de sofoco y de placer. Era en su carne compasiva donde se sumergía hasta perder el aliento y volverse esponja, medusa, estrella de altamar.

Le dije, en resumen, todas las locuras que nunca le hubiera dicho si pudiera oírme y que nunca he vuelto a decir a ninguna mujer.

I was terrified of being dependent too, Alma," Dr. Catherine Hope told her one day. "But I've realized it's not such a big deal. You get used to it, and are grateful for the assistance. I can't dress or take a shower on my own, I have problems brushing my teeth and cutting the chicken on my plate, but I've never been more contented than I am now.

It made her feel sorry for her husband: she was discovering how vulnerable to flattery a conceited old man could be.

We all have demons in the dark recesses of our soul, but if we bring them out into the light, they grow smaller and weaker, they fall silent and eventually leave us in peace.

I stroke them, and they always like that, because old people don't have anyone who touches them, and I get them hooked on a TV series, because nobody wants to die before the final episode. Some of them find comfort in prayer, but there are lots of atheists here, and they don't pray. What's most important is not to leave them on their own.

Em toda uma vida de convivência com a miséria e a dor, não se lhe tinha endurecido a alma, mas, pelo contrário, era cada vez mais vulnerável à piedade.

El espectro de la pobreza, como el de la soledad, rondaba siempre a los viejos.

Con Ichimei descubrió las múltiples sutilezas del amor y del placer, desde la pasión desenfrenada y urgente, hasta esos momentos sagrados en que la emoción los elevaba y se quedaban inmóviles, tendidos frente a frente en la cama, mirándose a los ojos largamente, agradecidos de su suerte, humildes por haber tocado lo más hondo de sus almas, purificados por haberse desprendido de todo artificio y yacer juntos totalmente

This was to be his most stubborn, persistent memory of the war: that fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy, still smooth-cheeked, filthy with the dirt of battle and dried blood, laid out on a stretcher with his heart exposed to the air.

Quería ser aceptada sin nada que ocultar o fingir, conocer al otro profundamente y aceptarlo de la misma manera. Quería alguien con quien pasar la mañana del domingo en la cama leyendo los periódicos, a quien tomarle la mano en el cine, con quien reírse de tonterías y discutir ideas.