Quotes About Vulnerability

I have been for a long time dreadfully ill. I am getting better, however, although slowly, and shall get well. In the meantime the flocks of little birds of prey that always take the opportunity of illness to peck at a sick fowl of larger dimensions, have been endeavoring with all their power to effect my ruin.

Sometimes what gets to you most isn't the large holes that get ripped from your heart but the fraying of its edges — when what held you together isn't anymore.

You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.

History is a vast dust-heap of falsehood with a few pennies of truth scattered through it.

For Beauty Smith was cruel in the way that cowards are cruel. Cringing and snivelling himself before the blows or angry speech of a man, he revenged himself, in turn, upon creatures weaker than he.

In the day you rise in your strength, toothless and clawless, you will be as harmless as an army of clams.

And so with that girl. You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard. She has never been sheltered. She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like - like yours, for example.

Porque Smith era cruel, con aquella crueldad característica de lo cobardes. Dispuesto siempre a humillarse y a huir ante los golpes o las injurias de un hombre, se vengaba de ello con los seres más débiles.

He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it.

Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious.

That first repulsion had been really a fear of her undiscovered self, and the fear had gone to sleep.

Then he would cast a glance of fear at the wolf-circle drawn expectantly about him, and like a blow the realisation would strike him that this wonderful body of his, this living flesh, was no more than so much meat, a quest of ravenous animals, to be torn and slashed by their hungry fangs, to be sustenance to them as the moose and the rabbit had often been sustenance to him

The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.

overcoming your fear of disclosure

I dare not kill you. But I can break more bones, and you will walk sideways like a crab.

People with big personalities can make very big targets of themselves.

Genius requires an audience. For all his cleverness, Delaunay was an artist and as vulnerable as any of his kind to the desire to vaunt his brilliance. And there were few, very few, people capable of appreciating his art. I did not know, then, how deep-laid a game they played with each other, nor what part in it I was to play. All I knew was that she was the audience he chose.

In the general course of things, when beauty passes, the flower bows its head upon the stem and fails. Sometimes, though, when the petals droop, a framework of tempered steel is revealed within.

The keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess.

She was oh, so very beautiful to me, and her strength and courage and daring vulnerability only made her the more so.

He nodded at Josceline and me. Keep these two with you, will you? They seem to be damnably hard to kill.

Okay, so I wasn't entirely sure what it was or what I'd do about it if she did, but it felt good to say it.

super-size emotions had saved me. God knows, I'd spent enough time wrestling with them, but I'd never thought before about how much of what animates us as human beings—or semi-human beings—depends on our feelings. Without

One never thinks, until one is badly injured, about the myriad intricate ways in which the parts of one's body are connected.