Quotes About Vulnerability

At some point you have to love in order to be lovable.

Just because a man's hormones are involved doesn't mean his heart is involved.

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.

The only thing less secure than airplane Wi-Fi is running naked through Compton holding all of your money, jewelry, and credit cards in a baggie.

Hell, we were the ones who were attacked. She was in heat. Some women get drunk or high and all they want to do is fuck.

The women in his family looked like turtles who'd lost their shells.

The only thing more humiliating than a detective who pisses his pants is one who can't be more than five feet away from a toilet for fear he'll shit himself.

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People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

The heartbreak of this planet is healing. It may not seem so, but it is. Heartbreak is healing on a planetary level. That is why hearts are breaking. So, lead with your hearts both for yourself and for others. Where you share your love with others, you lead with your hearts. None of you acknowledge yourselves enough for this. And where you lead with your hearts, you the lead the way for others to open their hearts.

I was also troubled by the apparent over-confidence of a generation that has only known stability, growth and prosperity. I thought our people should understand how vulnerable Singapore was and is, the dangers that beset us, and how we nearly did not make it. Most of all, I hope that they will know that honest and effective government, public order and personal security, economic and social progress did not come about as the natural course of events.

Some folks can't hide things. They don't have enough, not enough money or influence or shame.

She smiled at him, not knowing how to say - you saved me. Instead, she said, "You must get well." Book 2, p188

The love she had felt for him in the past was still there within her, covered over now like a bandaged wound, not yet healed underneath and perhaps still easily reopened.

If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

She had always been far too afraid of losing her husband, or more properly, the financial parasol North had maintained over her head.

Women are so sensitive, darling. They have to be. They have to be aware what a man wants, what their children want. They have antennae all over them, whiskers of feeling. And unfortunately that has a down side. It means they get hurt.

They pushed closer. Chest to chest. Belly to belly. Two edges of a wound needing to heal.

Only man can blush. No other creature knows of shame. Why have we wandered so far away From simple honesty?

Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.

I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.