Quotes About Vulnerability

Don't put your finger In my heart

Fear is not born in a vacuum. It is born as the slightest…insecurity in your heart is eaten away.

We are the fish in front of the waterfall. We are the insects inside the cage. We are the ruins of the billows, The skull on the crosier, The force of the torrent and the whale that drinks it. We are the five-horned bull. We are the fire-breathing monster. And the screaming children. Oh, we are posioned by the moonlight.

Venere bellissima! è qui la tempesta che mi ha strappato dall'assennatezza sotto cui mi riparavo. Cupido e Amore, allora, sono piovuti nel mio petto e ormai per me non c'è più rimedio. Nel mio cuore le pareti sono marce, la casa va tutta in rovina

I was a sitting duck myself, and Arthur had a map of my nerves.

A fork in the developmental path leads a child either to imitate adults in order to become more assertive and powerful themselves, or consciously to display weakness so as to get adult help and attention.

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears. - Winston Churchill

Hitting an airliner was like having a shoot-out in a grammar school, just more crowded.

level attacks. Their primary

the problem with so secure a place was that it depended absolutely on secrecy which, once blown, became a fatal liability

For a thousand years, without an army or a navy, Iceland had never been attacked.

Courage, though, he'd once been told, was being the only one who knew how terrified you were.

Ryan was a tough, formidable son of a bitch who met things head-on when he had to. That's his weakness, Wellington told himself. He prefers to meet things head-on. He lacks subtlety. It was a common failing of the honest, and a grievous weakness in a political environment.

A cop once told me that any burglar who wants to break in will succeed, and the price of the lock determines only how long it might take to do the job.

When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

If you're mortal, all they can do to you is kill you.

Next time she'd have to ask him to keep the light on while he did it, so she could watch his face. That was the best part of the whole thing as far as she was concerned, the way a guy's face contorted so violently and then relaxed, as if some terrible mystery had just been solved.

Except for a small strip of shin that poked out from between the top of his socks and the bottom of his pants, his legs were purely theoretical.

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness after another?

And when Aaron called out for him just then, right on time, there was something beautiful about that, too, the way a little kid needed you for everything and wasn't afraid to say so.

There was no dignified way to answer a question about your underwear.

He'd gone through the first two decades of his life taking it for granted that everything would always be okay, that he could only fall so far before someone would catch him and set him back on his feet.

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.