Quotes About Vulnerability

Nothing was more cruel than a heart made of flesh and blood, because it knew what gives pain.

It seems only yesterday I used to believe There was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. Billy Collins, "On Turning Ten" A

But they woke him with words, their cruel, bright weapons. T. H. White, The Book of Merlin

Younger? Hmm. Well, if you say so." Elinor glanced down at herself. Her mouse-gray sweater was filthy, and there were three runs in her stockings. "Meggie, that was very kind of you to help me back there in the church," she said, pulling her skirt down over her knees. "My knees were like jelly, I was so scared. I don't know what's come over me.

How was she supposed to deal with a child? She could hardly manage to keep her own painful heart together.

But nine years are a long time, and Meggie saw how careful they were with each other, like people on a narrow bridge crossing a wide, wide void.

Men! A few nights of coughing and they see the reaper standing by their bedside.

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly.

She did sometimes fear she might never again completely trust the touch or the smile of a man.

Sai bene quanto il fuoco sia facile a offendersi.

I understand the world can be cruel place and there are people out there counting on naive kids like you to take advantage of. Don't just think because it's video games people can't get hurt.

The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail.

Any complex system is sport for a hacker;

Any time you had a cipher, you were vulnerable to someone smarter than you coming up with a way of breaking it.

Any data you collect will probably leak, any data you retain will definitely leak, and we're putting data-collection capability into fucking lightbulbs now.

I don't even know who I was crying for. Me? Sruthi? Both? "Can I give you a hug?" Tanisha was a trailblazer in the whole consent movement.

It was considered insanely hard to poison a computer's BIOS remotely, but if I was going to rebuild a computer that had been fatally pwned, ignoring the BIOS would be like changing all your house locks after losing your keys but leaving all the windows unlocked.

Martin tried to shut her down by talking about the intrinsically vulnerable circumstances of farming, and she countered by snappishly reminding them all of the vulnerability of fucking starving to death.

we are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.

You always fall hardest the first time, don't you? There's no bottom to it.

I should protect and cherish the young, the old, and the infirm, because at some point I would be all of these things before my own journey ended.

At night I could feel the loneliness coming off both of us like heat.

Shvets's assessment is strikingly similar to those of various CIA officers. "Trump is extremely vulnerable to flattery," Rolf Mowatt-Larssen told me. "He almost defines relationships entirely by who flatters him and who doesn't, as opposed to the intrinsic value of what people say. He doesn't care at all about the fact that Russians are masters at manipulation.

Human hearts are not made out of stone. Thank Thor. They can break, and heal, and beat again.