Quotes About Vulnerability

all bullies got worse when you let them know they were hurting you.

He realized that the woman at his side - the one with the sweaty red face and the sweet smile - had pried open his heart, one day at a time.

I think this is the way love feels to people like you and me. Threatening and dangerous. We have to be in control, and love takes that away. People like us… We can't tolerate vulnerability. But despite our best efforts, sooner or later love seems to catch up with us. And then…And then we fall apart.

Well alright then," His eyes glittered. "I get my kicks whipping woman I have sex with and you're next on my list. Now I'm going to take a shower.

I have to tell you that I'm not all that comfortable with the idea of spending the rest of my life sleeping next to somebody who's got the power to fire me if my underwear doesn't make it all the way to the hamper." She repressed a smile. "I'm sympathetic to your problem, but I'm not selling the team just so you can be a slob." "Somehow I didn't expect you would.

She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she'd never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that he'd put her life in order. What she felt for Bram was messy, honest, and soul-deep. He felt like…part of her, the best and the worst. Like someone she wanted to struggle through life with; share triumphs and catastrophes; share holidays, birthdays, every days

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.

I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.

She hated using airplane toilets. She was always afraid the plane would choose the exact moment she was most defenseless to crash, and she'd spend her final seconds of life spiraling toward earth with her bottom bare to the world.

He wanted to protect her and fuck her and comfort her and destroy her all at once. The chaos of his emotions coiled around his pain, deepening the agony.

He'd lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she'd been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.

If you have so little respect for me, why are you still around?" He slipped a gentle hand into her hair and pushed a curl behind her ear. "Because I'm a sucker for beautiful, wounded creatures.

Maybe some poor slob would take you to bed if you weren't such a ballbuster.

Creciste protegida, Daisy, pero yo lo hice de la manera más cruda. Mucho más cruda de lo que puedas imaginar. Cuando creces así, tienes que aprender a protegerte de alguna manera, tienes que aferrarte a algo que impida que te conviertas en una bestia. En mi caso fue el orgullo. Nunca me doblego . Jamás

She hated using airplane toilets. She was always afraid the plane would choose the exact moment she was most defenseless to crash, and she'd spend her final seconds of life spiraling toward earth with her bottom bare to the world.

I got on my knees once for love, and I don't recommend it.

That's not fair. I like lying to you. It makes my life easier.

Even though she was jobless, penniless, and homeless, he was the needy one.

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

There was a sweetness about her that was as unexpected as it was disturbing because it made her so much more vulnerable than he wanted her to be.

Her throat tightened as she reminded herself that she might have been making love, but he had been having sex. She

Rachel nem akarta, hogy a férfi azt higgye róla, szemérmes, különösen, hogy annyira kívánta, s tudta, hogy meg kell mondania neki. - Gabe, ma reggel megjött. A férfi felé fordult és üres tekintettel nézett rá. - A ciklusom - magyarázta. Amikor Gabe cseppet sem vágott értelmesebb képet, eszébe jutott a férfi hivatása. - Tüzelek.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Supongo que no es fácil enfrentarse a tus propios defectos.