Quotes About Vulnerability

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young

À de certains moments, Jean Valjean souffrait tant qu'il devenait puéril. C'est le propre de la douleur de faire reparaître le côté enfant de l'homme.

TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER

L'ideale è spaventoso a vedersi, così, perduto nelle profondità, piccolo, isolato, impercettibile, brillante ma circondato da tutte quelle grandi minacce nere mostruosamente ammassate intorno a esso. Eppure, esso non è più in pericolo di quanto non lo sia una stella tra le fauci delle nembi.

Open, nevertheless.

He had the kind of smile that inhabited every part of his face-his eyes, his cheeks; there was even a dimple. I wear my heart on my sleeve, that smile said, and no woman could be unmoved by such transparency.

Nada je krhka stvar, jako lomljiva ako se njome pre?esto barata.

Isabelle seems unbreakable. She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart. Don't hurt her, that's what I'm saying. If you don't love her--' 'I do.' Vianne studied him. 'Does she know?' 'I hope not.

The smile he gave her was barely one at all. "We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war.

When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather. There is nothing that can't hurt our kids, I swear." She turned. "The irony is they need us to be strong.

Abuse can make an animal mean.

Hope is a fragile thing, easily broken if handled too much.

Don't take peace for granted. It can shatter like glass.

I was taught by my father to be afraid of the world, and some of the lessons stuck. I read about Patty Hearst and the Zodiac Killer and the massacre at the Munich Olympics and Charles Manson, and I knew the world was a terrifying place. He said it all of the time, reminded me that mountains could blow up and kill people in their sleep. Governments were corrupt. A flu could come out of nowhere and kill millions. A nuclear bomb could fall at any second, obliterating everything.

Leni felt the sudden fragility of her world, of the world itself. She barely remembered Before. Maybe she didn't remember it at all, in fact. Maybe the images she did have-Dad lifting her onto his shoulders, pulling petals from a daisy, holding a buttercup to her chin, reading her a bedtime story-maybe these were all images she'd taken from pictures and imbued with an imagined life.

He also knew that love could freeze over, become a kind of thin ice all its own.

I do," she said quietly, stung by the sudden thought that without him, no one would know her that well.

She wanted to be with him, and though the realization frightened her, it also set her heart racing with anticipation. When she was with Nick, she was a different woman. Some of his glitter fell onto her and made her feel beautiful and sparkly and more alive.

Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and jagged edges. It's not about the falling in love. It's about the landing where you said you'd be and working to keep that love strong.' 

She would hold her daughter and stroke her head and let her cry and she would have to be strong. She was so tired of being strong.

I don't know how romantic I am, but I only know one way to love...All the way. When I love, I risk my heart. All or nothing.

Nina lowered the camera slowly, feeling naked suddenly, vulnerable. Without that thin layer of a glass lens, she was here instead of there, looking at her father, who was dying.

There is no middle ground, no safe place; not here, in the Great Alone.

If I had told him the truth long ago, or had danced and drunk and sung more, maybe he would have seen me instead of a dependable, ordinary mother.