Quotes About Vulnerability

You turned red all over, Finn," Aiden said helpfully. "So did Teagan. As red as Kool-Aid." The back of Finn's neck went from pink lemonade to Blastin' Berry Cherry. "Yeah," Aiden said. "Like that." "I don't want to talk about it," Finn said.

Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

A weapon can usually be turned against you, if you don't know how to use it.

It's in dreams more than anywhere else that you get to know people best -- along with all their weaknesses and their secrets.

Losing your heart is the most beautiful way to find out you have one.

happen. Buildings can fall down, the church steeple can fall off, all the leaves can fall off the trees, and all the squirrels will fall off their branches.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same.

Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn't keep a hard eye on herself.

They were like those deep-sea creatures with watery, transparent skin: you could see the soft little jerking beans of their hearts, you understood that the very thing that was supposed to protect them was the thing that made them vulnerable, and you knew you couldn't help them, so you decided to love them instead.

She bought a poster of the Beatles and tacked it on the wall above her bed. On days when she was feeling strong her favorite was John, and on days when she was feeling weak her favorite was George, perhaps because there was a vulnerability to John that she was afraid to indulge without an armor of her own vitality around her.

He has always been the kid who cries too easily and laughs too easily, the kid who begins giggling in church for no reason at all, who blinks hotly in shame and frustration whenever he misses a question in class, living in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes.

El miedo nos mantiene vivos.

In security, you are only as secure as the weakest link.

Il fattore umano è l'anello più debole della sicurezza

One of the most important things that a grifter must have in his possession is a good … 'vulnerability' radar," Morant illuminated, in a comment reminiscent of the work of psychologist Angela Book. (If you recall from chapter 1, Book found that psychopaths were better than non-psychopaths at discerning the victims of a previous violent assault simply from the way they walked.)

Zeroing in on weakness may well be part of a serial killer's toolkit. But it may also come in handy at the airport.

Women died in childbirth, just as men did on the battlefield, and in both cases it was easier to convince the young and foolhardy to do it, to use them up before they were so old that their bodies refused to do what was necessary.

In some ways you are the definition of love. A look, a touch and the way you make me feel. You give me strength to face the elements (whatever they may be) because I don't face them alone. It feels like you are here with me, even when you are physically far away. You give me the courage to be open, to tell you scary stuff, and you accept me. Time with you seems timeless. I love you

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

When we live life at the pace of a NASCAR race, sex is one of the first things that goes. Once again, if you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy?

Speaking the truth in love requires two parts--truth and love. Cut either one out of the equation, and you'll cut yourself short. You may be one of the most difficult people for you to love because you know your weaknesses so well. Likewise, you may be one of the most difficult people to tell the truth to because it's so much easier to avoid facing the lies you tell yourself. But put those two elements together in your life--truth and love--and see how much easier they are to take!

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.