Quotes About Vulnerability

Here's the thing: we're all as thin as paper. Like those paper people you used to find in old children's magazines, inhabiting a two-page spread with other paper people, all of them hanging out somewhere together-at the park, at church, at school, at the mall, on the family room-until some kid took a pair of scissors to the dotted lines surrounding them and cut them out of their paper world. That's us, that's anyone. That was me. A cut-out paper person removed from the world I once belonged to.

They are narcissists, pumped full of self-esteem, but that self-esteem is always hanging by a thread and once pricked, their egos burst like a balloon.

He felt water run down his back from the damp brickwork he was sitting against, and as he worried distantly about corrosion he realised you can always fall a little further. A moment ago he thought he'd bottomed out, but now he was concerned about personal rust. Mother of fuck.

She's crushed,' McLeod said. 'That's why she came forward. She blames herself for what happened to Anezka.

In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream.

For surely there is a certain level of ignorance that is necessary at the start of a love affair.

Bad enough that getting turned on when he had nothing more than a bath towel to hide it would make the condition kind of hard to miss, but getting turned on in front of his ex-fiancee was akin to smearing honey on his junk and walking into grizzly territory.

You are a medium," Marta said. "Although so is everybody a medium, an involuntary host to free-floating misery. But you're a more available one.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

Sometimes you just have to open up to someone even if you don't know where this journey will lead you. A lot of people are scared of that. And you can never expect a man to be perfect - after all men don't get the perfect woman either

Olen tullut tutuksi suuremman pedon kanssa kuin maailma, huoneessani se odottaa kaikki kaksitoista silmää auki. Kun lähestyn sitä se nousee levitoimaan kun käännän sille selkäni sen käpälät ovat kaulallani.

Mom's got this secret fear that if you don't control your life, if you don't control your man, he will eventually destroy you.

I would have liked to cry: the make-up stopped me, it looked just right, with the cracks, with the places where it was beginning to flake off, tears would have ruined all that. I could cry later, if I still felt like it.

The ones you love are the ones you're bound to hurt the most, that's the law of love.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

Iemand toelaten in je leven betekent hem of haar permissie geven je te kwetsen, wat onherroepelijk zal gebeuren. Hij zal jou kwetsen, jij zal hem kwetsen. Hij zal jou teleurstellen, jij zal hem teleurstellen.

not answering. His eyes darkened. "I don't

I looked at this polite little sentence & sat crying on the bed —

No one makes a better enemy than a man who has had to beg for your help.

Your life can change in the blink of an eye, on a calm and beautiful Midsummer night. You lose what you love while you think it is still safe beside you.

Across the gateway of my heart I wrote, "No thoroughfare." But love came laughing by and cried, "I enter everywhere." Herbert Shipman

Emotional fuckwittage

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

my parents, for the hurt, helpless, angry love they must have felt as they watched me smash my way out of their protection.