Quotes About Vulnerability

Tell me what's happening," he went on. "Why is someone after you? What do they want?" She placed her palm on her chest and drawled, "The key to my heart." A muscle ticked in his jaw. "Keep your secrets then. I don't care." "No reason you should

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I want him to see me as I saw him then. I want him to find me alone at the end of the day with the sun in my hair. I want his heart to buckle, too.

As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you.

Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness.

An unpredictable parent is a fearsome god in the eyes of a child.

Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.

His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.

That night (as on all nights), when the lights get turned out, Don and I lie on our backs side by side with his left hand cradling my right. "I worry that this sickness is taking over your life, Bear," I murmur in the dark now permeated by a bathroom nightlight he has just affixed. "I have no other life," he responds while gently stroking my fingers. "I don't know what to hope for," I whisper. "Let's hope for a good summer," he says.

I lay unprotesting each touch bringing me exquisite pleasure and impossible pain.If only I had seen the smallest kindness in her face, if only there had not been such hunger... She stripped me in every way possible, herself remaining protected from revelation of her own soul.

But remember, dear sister, that the easiest men for us to love are often the same ones who hurt us the most.

age is so humiliating, darlings. After a while, there is simply no camouflaging your deterioration, and no one ever sees all the strengths you've acquired along the way.

It's funny how you can be all alone and in danger and then a minute later feel totally safe, like you've never been lonely before.

Wetting one's pants is no kind of self-esteem builder.

my subjects' willingness to brave bullying and condemnation in order to reveal their individual selves makes it impossible to be nothing less than awestruck.

Nothing says "I love you" more than patting your boyfriend's back as his head is in a toilet, barfing up warm Bud Light.

the moment I opened up this once locked box of childhood good times, I also allowed all the pain of being deserted, alone, and friendless out too.

heard Dad telling her that it was natural to lash out at people you love when you're feeling afraid.

To really experience true contact with another person, you must enter a realm of uncertainty together.

Emotional and physical isolation from attachment figures is inherently traumatizing for human beings, bringing with it a heightened sense, not simply of vulnerability and danger, but also of helplessness (Mikulincer, Shaver, & Pereg, 2003).

When did you get all insightful?" he asked. "I have no idea," Josh admitted. "I don't like it." "Me, either. Makes me feel like a girl. Don't tell anyone." (Ethan and Josh)

It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.

Love is supposed to be scary. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

Your greatest fear once you give birth is losing your child or seeing them hurt.