Quotes About Vulnerability

Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

I told you once," said Red, "that I wanted to hear your voice. I did not think the first words I would hear would be these." "Those were not the first words," I whispered, fighting tears. I would not weep.

There is no place here for softness. Let folk in too close and you offer them up as weapons for your own destruction.

Don't punish me for what you see as your own failings. I want to be with you more than anything in the world. I've dreamed of this since that day you spoke of, the day you called me 'my heart' and surprised me with a kiss. Never mind the handfasting, if you don't want that. But please don't push me away. I know you love me. I love you with all my heart. Please give this time.

His touch warmed my whole body. I was longing to throw my arms around him and hold him close, but the magic of this moment was like a single, lovely strand of cobweb, fragile and delicate. One wrong move and it would snap beyond mending.

Bran dissera, uma vez, que a confiança era um conceito sem qualquer significado. Mas, se não podíamos confiar, ficávamos sós, porque nem a amizade, nem a sociedade, nem a família, nem a aliança, podiam existir sem confiança. Sem ela ficávamos dispersos, à mercê dos quatro ventos, sem nada a que nos agarrarmos.

All the same, our eyes spoke of something good, something deep, something that could grow and flower if the world we lived in would allow it. Something too precious to put into words. Something I would not dare let out into the light of day, not yet.

The two of them are like open books, they speak the truth at the risk of their own lives, and when they keep silent their thoughts blaze like a beacon from their eyes.

You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.

At some point, we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

There's a difference between being afraid and letting people see that you are

Folk are easy hurt, no doubt about that. Easy wounded. Easy broken.

Allow someone to become too dear to you and you give your enemy a weapon more deadly than the sharpest sword, more lethal than the strongest poison.

To allow hope into the heart is to open oneself to bitter disappointment.

Not so easy. Give your heart to someone and you spend your life in fear of losing them. In terror of seeing them hurt.

Don't load yourself up too heavy. Even the strongest heart has a breaking point.

A picture of vulnerability, she made the men feel protective and forgiving, happy to use the occasion to help a woman in need. But anyone stepping over a line would see a very different person as County Chief Woo witnessed.

I do not want any man to see me suffer.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

I hate to admit it, but sometimes I think he's right. When you kiss someone, it's the first taste of his mouth that will make or break your heart.

Zachary me enjabonó entre las piernas explorándome como si fuera la primera vez, como si no me conociera de memoria. Yo alargué la mano hacia atrás. Él dijo Lacey anne. Le encanta susurrar mi nombre cuando lo tengo dentro, y esa es la única ocasión en la que disfruto de verdad al oírlo, porque es como si todas las cosas de mí misma que me gustan y todas las que detesto confluyeran, en cierto modo, y me siento desnuda y plena, nombrada y encontrada.

I don't think you can worry about what is going to happen with something after that. I think the only thing that you can do is be honest and let the chips fall where they may.