Quotes About Vulnerability

If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too.

Prayer is not a place to be good, it is a place to be honest. Prayer is not a place to perform, it is a place to be present. Prayer is not a place to be right, it is a place to be known. Prayer is not a place to prove your worth, it is a place to receive worth and offer yourself in truth.

People didn't always act the way they should. Not even grown-ups. Sometimes the people who were supposed to protect you from monsters were monsters themselves.

The fact that the victims are single allows them to make bank withdrawals without a cosigner.

I nodded, not trusting myself to speak. It's always like that. You think you've blown something off and then you say it out loud and suddenly you're all choked up and pathetic.

Promise me you won't let any more strangers take you up to a hotel room, okay?

You want me to touch you right here, in full daylight

We broke up because I was afraid.

But the thing is," and with this it's he who takes a step forward, "the woman who you really are . . . the one who you keep so tightly under wraps, the woman who is only allowed out when she is touched a certain way, made to feel certain things . . . that woman is so damn compelling . . . I can't seem to turn away.

Because God help us all if, I ever fall in love with another human...

Man is an endangered species.

Animals that have more defense forms are also the most sensitive to attack, such as the turtles on their hulls or tracks, that when they leave their cocoons, they become one of the most beautiful insects. Such are human beings. They spend the rest of their lives in fear. Close their hearts made alveoli to the world in order to protect themselves and hoping that one day someone might free them.

I cry too much to be butch." The artist deadpanned, raising an eyebrow filled with intimidation at the young woman.

That was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable....When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness.

He let her get almost all the way there, just staring, before he stumbled towards her. They ended in a rush and then fell to the ground together,arms locked around each other, each holding on as tightly as possible. Niether of them said a word.

She wanted to tell him that she understood him now, in a way she'd never understood anyone before. Because she was with him. It wasn't even like being in the web; it was much closer than that, much deeper. He'd torn down all the barriers and put his soul into her hands.

I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.

It was as if the normal veil that separated two people had melted.

If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain.

Love is for weak people, it's a delusion and it can be deadly.

Cliff said "damn" for me (I'm going to die). I didn't know he liked me enough to swear.

Amazing how he could make her feel. Safe in a vacant lot, warm in the middle of the night. Just being this close to him, being able to touch his thoughts and feel his presence, was comforting-and dizzying.

You won't find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine

After a minute he said, "It's like-I don't know how to describe it, but it's like I belong with Jade. She really sees me. I mean, not the outside stuff. She sees me inside, and she likes me. Nobody else has ever done that…except you.