Quotes About Vulnerability

I must tell you this, Maggie. Your letters are my lifeline. Your threat to stop them terrified me. Never stop writing to me, I implore you.

He sounded so lonely; he always had. It was so easy for him to fall into himself; she'd always had to work so hard to get him to stay in the world. He hid in his head, and it wasn't good for him, he was always so much happier when she would coax him out of there.

After a while, you find yourself waiting for that wrong note, you want to hear that wrong note, that subtle variance in pitch. People aren't machines. They make mistakes. They hit wrong notes.

Like most males, he could keep up the aloof act for only so long. Exhausted,

Made sure you saw my feet of clay.

Strange that it was so hard to tell much about a person with no clothes. Clothes gave you clues. Tossed

She didn't know how, but she understood that he needed to keep people at a distance, that he didn't want to know them, or see them, not really see them. Somewhere along the line, he'd been hurt. Deeply. And he was going to make sure it didn't happen again.

Maybe because heroes to her weren't the guys who flexed their muscles and went to battle. No, for her, the real heroes were the artists, the poets, the men who were brave enough to voice their emotions. It took courage to be honest. It took courage to face your demons head on with words, to go beyond the hunter-gatherer thing. The world needed the action hero, but it also needed the quiet hero, the poet. Rick

Someone once told her she was ever-morphing. That wasn't it at all. She revealed too much. And most people, she'd come to realize, didn't want that much reality. Maddie

If a child doesn't have a secure and stable relationship after a parent leaves, she keeps her feelings inside because it's not safe to put them out there. Later on the child thinks, 'I'm not going to trust you.' Her future attachments get compromised, because she never worked through the attachments she did have. All she had to do was protect herself, and part of that protection was not to attach to anyone.

Tu n'étais plus qu'un insecte prisonnier d'une araignée repue, qui te gardait en réserve pour un repas à venir. Elle t'avait capturé pour te savourer en toute quiétude, quand l'envie lui viendrait de goûter ton sang. Tu imaginais ses pattes velues, ses gros yeux globuleux, implacables, son ventre mou, gorgé de viande, vibrant, gélatineux, et ses crocs venimeux, sa bouche noire qui allait te sucer la vie.

As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

All of us are weak and frail; hold thou no man more frail than thyself.

What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.

My love-lies-bleeding.

T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.

I am somebody who never came close to a physical altercation, because I was too scared of even getting near one - I'd probably just start crying.

Trying to forget or hide your mistakes is a huge error. Rather, hold them near and dear to your heart. Wear them proudly.

Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.

I'm not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.

I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.