Quotes About Vulnerability

Precautions to be taken in the case Of freak reincarnation: what to do On suddenly discovering that you Are now a young and vulnerable toad Plump in the middle of a busy road, Or a bear cub beneath a burning pine, Or a book mite in a revived divine.

I often felt we lived in a lighted house of glass, and that any moment some thin-lipped parchment face would peer through a carelessly unshaded window to obtain a free glimpse of things that the most jaded voyeur would have paid a small fortune to watch.

The softness and fragility of baby animals caused us the same intense pain. She wanted to be a nurse in some famished Asiatic country; I wanted to be a famous spy.

He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, though not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.

Oh, said Haze, poor me should know, I went through that when I was a kid: boys twisting one's hair, hurting one's breasts, flipping one's skirt.

under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.

Because you took advantage of a sinner because you took advantage because you took because you took advantage of my disadvantage …

I now wondered if Valechka (as the colonel called her) was really worth shooting, or strangling, or drowning. She had very vulnerable legs, and I decided I would limit myself to hurting her very horribly as soon as we were alone.

Solitude was corrupting me...My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too

You who conceal your strongest feelings must think me a shameless little idiot for throwing open my poor bruised heart like this.

She had one of those tender complexions that after a good cry get all blurred and inflamed, and morbidly alluring

Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree

affirmative action's weakness and vulnerability cooperate with, and perhaps unintentionally legitimate, a meritocracy that privileges test scores over other indicators of student potential in the first place.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.

She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.

She tried to tell herself he hadn't made any promises to begin with, but that made her feel like a bigger fool. He had never asked her to put her heart under his boot heels; she'd done that all on her own.

Would I be healed now if you gave me your blood, Nikolai?" "Are you asking me for it?" "If I were, would you give it to me?

She felt like she was walking up on a wounded animal, unsure if reaching out to him was going to win her a bit of uneasy trust or a vicious taste of fang and claw.

He didn't care that his voice and hands shook as he brought her closer. He was thoroughly unashamed of the depth of his feeling for this woman.

His mouth was the only bit of softness on him. Wide and sensual, lips parted slightly in his drugged state, his mouth was profanely beautiful.

When he spoke, there was an odd vulnerability to his deep voice. As if he were letting her peek inside one of the dark chambers of the heart he seemed so sure he didn't possess.

Just because you're alive, doesn't mean you're safe with me. Don't make the mistake of thinking I'm some kind of hero.