Quotes About Vulnerability

she saw her husband for the first time: she had married a child whose only talent was an air of engaging helplessness by which he got the protection of certain goodhearted people—

Why do I have to do this? Gator demanded. Cuz you're such a pretty boy. Our photographer isn't going to fall for one of us as the tied up model, Nico pointed out. Dumbest plan you've ever come up with, Gator rumbled. Offering myself all trussed up like a Christmas turkey to a serial killer who likes to torture people isn't too smart.

The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.

If you need to talk about your childhood, you're safe with me. If you need to break into a million pieces, I'm right here, Lev. I'll find them all, I'm good at details, and I'll put you back together. You're safe here.

He was desperate for her to see inside, to look past all the layers of darkness and find that part of him she'd touched. The part that needed her to save him.

I'm putting up a great front, then because I feel like I'm breaking apart inside.

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he'd never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

My heart is very much alive and in your hands. Do your best not to destroy it. You are very lucky it isn't it my hands... The only thing I know to do with hearts is incinerate them! Ouch!

After Nicholas tells Dahlia that he loves her) ...Just don't break my heart my heart, Dahlia. I've never handed it over to anyone before. She placed both hands over his. I've never had anyone's heart. I don't know the first thing about keeping hearts. You're taking a terrible risk. That's what I do best. ... Are you feeling relaxed now? ... I was until you started throwing around the L-word. That's enough to scare anyone.

But I'm not any better at relationships than you are. We'll find our way together, even if we're fumbling around in the dark for a while.

Or maybe it was survival mode they both lived in, and they didn't dare allow anyone else in because if they were ripped apart a second time there would be no fixing either of them

Baby you're reading the situation completely wrong. I know you don't need saving. I do. I need you to save me.

The real knife to a man's heart was his woman's tears.

You're strong. Give him time to show you. I promise you Anya, you won't ever regret it

Her soft voice nearly was the end of his strength. Just when he was certain there was no way he could love her more, she did something like that. She made him feel as if he was everything to her. He'd never been everything to anyone.

Julian made another effort to breathe. Air. It was all around him, yet he couldn't seem to drag enough into his lungs. He took her hand in his and carried it to the warmth of his mouth. 'We will need to find a safe subject, cara mia, or I will not make it through these next few minutes.

She had to know, soon or later, that he was no saint and never would be. He loved her, but if she was going to stay with him, she had to know the worst of him. He wanted honesty between them.

Sarah looked at Jonas. Instinctively she knew, if anyone was going to get Hannah through this, it would be Jonas - but who was going to get him through it?

She touched his jaw with gentle fingers. Promise me you will never leave me like that again.Next time let me go with you. Her eyes were eloquent, pleading, so much so that he had to look away. Do not ask me for what I cannot give you. I would give you the moon if you asked, cherie , but I cannot allow you to place yourself in danger.Not for any reason.Not even to help me.

I saw and recognized who and what she was by her shadow—by the tubes connecting her to everything. Every step she took, I could feel the channels opening everywhere until she took the one step that finally connected us.

All right baby. If you have that kind of courage, the kind that will face a monster, I have to have it too. You F**** terrify me, woman

She probably should have been afraid of him, but he brought her such a sense of well-being that fearing him was impossible.

He had never trusted a woman-or anyone, for that matter-to sleep close to him, let alone in the same bed. And yet, already, he was completely relaxed with her. He couldn't imagine being without her, and now, if they survived, it was a very real possibility.

He'd been angry. He'd been afraid for her. He'd been shocked that just by being with her, he'd become everything he most despised in the world-- a predator.