Quotes About Vulnerability

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can keep us if we ever lose that.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

Please stay broken, Callie," I pray. "Please stay broken as long as I am.

May be the most powerful humans on earth, they are also the most vulnerable

Her eyes were on the brink of tears. If she blinked, they would fall— but Scythe Curie kept them pooled on her lower lashes, too proud to be seen weeping in conclave.

She wondered if perhaps the man had been sent to end her by flattering her to death.

Si no lloras hasta quedarte dormida de vez en cuando, es que no cuentas con la compasión necesaria para ser segadora.

I would love to be your first," she says. "You can do that, can't you? I mean you're . . . complete, right?" "More than complete," he tells her. "In fact, I have three." She just stares at him dumbfounded, and he decides not to tell her he's joking.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we lose that.

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

In the midst of their current helplessness, she felt empowered. How very strange.

Greyson Tolliver locked himself in his apartment, opened the windows to let in the cold, then crawled into his bed beneath heavy covers. It was what he had done when he was younger and the world got the better of him. He could disappear beneath the billowing comforter that protected him from the coldness of the world.

There is a pistol in her purse. Small and dainty, a little .22 caliber. She much prefers her rifle, but that's not exactly something you take with you into a bar. Even a sleazy one like this.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or for comfort or for joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

Por suerte, el corazón se le había enfriado tanto que ya nada podía dañarlos.

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.

Love breaks my bones and I laugh

I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.

I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.