Quotes About Vulnerability

No conversation that started with we need to talk ever ended well. It was usually followed by an it's not you, it's

You are more afraid of love than any person I've ever met. It's why you keep testing people pushing them away. Open your eyes.

After he left the house, she dried her hair and dressed in a pair of old, comfortable jeans and a white hoodie. Ordinarily, she'd take the time to put on makeup, but today she didn't feel the need to hide anything. She was who she was: a woman who'd survived a war of the heart and had the wrinkles to prove it.

After he left the house, she dried her hair and dressed in a pair of old, comfortable jeans and a white hoodie. Ordinarily, she'd take the time to put on makeup, but today she didn't feel the need to hide anything. She was who she was: a woman who'd survived a war of the heart and had the wrinkles to prove it. (Night Road, page 382)

You're as cold as ice, Dotty. You'll end up alone if you can't thaw.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.

Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.

How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.

Ah crap!" I instantly shooed away darkness and whatnot, so that I was solid, visible me again. "Sorry, Stevie Rae. I forgot I'd gone all Bram Stoker.

She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.

She was so tired of being strong.

She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart.

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

All this time, Dad had taught Leni how dangerous the outside world was. The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.

With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.

It's scary that people can just stop loving you, you know?

Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.

We are all fragile. It's the thing we learn in war

I loved you both with all of my damaged heart.

She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never changed. They'd hurt each other, let each other down, and yet, here they were after everything, together. She needed him now, needed him to remind her that she was live, that she wasn't alone, that she hadn't lost everything.

She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare.