Quotes About Vulnerability

Because like you, this girl is a person who needs a lot of love.' 'Love? I need a lot of love?' 'Of course, you do. And everyone else does too. Funny we never say it. It is okay to scream in public if you are hungry "I'm starving". It is okay to make a fuss if you are tired "I'm so sleepy". But somehow we cannot say "I just need some more love". Why can't we say it, Shyam? It is as basic a need.

Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. "Feel that?" His throat worked as he swallowed. "It would break if I fell for you and anything happened that would take you away from me." --Zane to Willow in 'The Edge of Sin' in the Real Men Last all Night anthology

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We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

I am emotion and bone held together by flesh and reality.

Body puts us on the brittle line between life and death.

Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you — but trusting them not to.

A woman's hopes are hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

A harsh critique is a pen stab through the heart — and the resultant inkbleed.

The broken heart is broadest.

It's so curious: one can resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

But it is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them...

I'm a dandelion in a harsh wind.

My heart is glass, daily shattered...

When what I express to another isn't felt or wanted or understood, the feeling goes back into myself and stabs me.

The tougher you are, the more fragile.

Just tested positive for claustrophobia.

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks 'em.

After all the stupid things I've done in my life, hope I don't die just because I touched my face.

Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet.

...whereas I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Don't try so hard to impress. People fall in love with vulnerabilities more than strengths.

Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella.

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.