Quotes About Vulnerability

when you're far away from home and scared shitless you need all the friends you can get and you need them right away.

Das Weib, die allgegenwärtige Wirklichkeit, brennt sich uns nackt ins Blut, und wo wir mit ihr kämpfen müssen, da ziehen wir sie am besten erst recht nackt aus, in der Tat oder Vorstellung, so gut wir eben können

It never occurred to her that if the drainpipes of a house are clogged, the rain may collect in pools on the roof; and she suspected no danger until suddenly she discovered a crack in the wall.

Nada hay más delicado ni más temible que las manos de los chiquillos: en ellas el juguete no puede durar mucho.

I always tell the truth when I'm drunk. In vino vomitas.

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

Catriana sighed. "I'm hard to make friends with," she said at length. "I doubt it's worth your effort.

It was good to feel laughter, to release it. To believe it was permitted. That many things might now, finally, be allowed. We are vulnerable when we feel that way. But not, in truth, any more than when we live curtailed, held back, enraged, afraid. Everything is, indeed, always changing. And not usually to be controlled by us, the children of earth and sky, with fortune's wheel always turning and a future we cannot know. •

it's so easy to be a fool when one falls in love.

That's not just because we love each other , Kester. We've always loved each other. But I think it's because we know now how hard it is to win this and how easy it is to risk losing it. And how terribly precious it is!

He had curled himself up into a minature sphere in the farthest corner of the box, a fuzzy softball that would have fit eaisly into the palm of my hand.

There was a terrible danger in loving small, fragile things.

He lies down next to me. He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/' 'Well, don't die,' I say, "we just met.

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.

What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love.

The brawniest will not beat back the storm Nor the heaviest haul your little boy from harm.

Everybody here is infirm. Everybody here is infirm.

You are the beautiful half of a golden hurt.

A beteg ember mindig emberebb.

Az emberi gyengeségr?l éppúgy példa alapján alkotunk képet, ahogy a pecsétnyomó lenyomatot hagy a viaszon.

También es la historia frecuente, a su manera canónica, del hombre que teme, que no quiere arrebatar lo suyo, que no quiere fricciones con los otros y está dispuesto a entregarse porque no está dispuesto a pelear. Miedo a pelear, el secreto mejor guardado de la masculinidad en trance de ser puesta a prueba, la renuncia previa a la victoria por miedo de pelear.

This is a book of raw flesh.

This is how I want you: larger and smaller stronger and weaker taller and trembling more, more out of breath that I more burning more penetrating bolder bossier more yielding more frightened narrower and more relentless than you are more than I.