Quotes About Vulnerability

BARBARA: You do understand that it hurts, to go from sharing a bed with you for twenty-three years to sleeping by myself. BILL: I'm here, now. BARBARA: Men always say shit like that, as if the past and the future don't exist. BILL: Can we not make this a gender discussion? BARBARA: Do men really believe that here and now is enough? It's just horseshit, to avoid talking about the things they're afraid to say.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

For just this moment, he wanted her to see him for who he was, without the pity he knew she'd feel when she found out the truth.

At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.

Kate laid her hand against his cheek. "Why do you keep doing this? Why do you keep getting hurt?" "Bad habit," Milligan mumbled.

Constance wrapped her arms tightly around her knees and hissed like an angry cat.

Worse, because a lobster is an invertebrate, every anatomic feature that is rigid is part of the exoskeleton, including the teeth inside the stomach that grind food. The lobster must rip out the lining of its throat, stomach, and anus before it is free of the old shell.

For so long, she'd taken her memories of Patty - the memories they'd created together - and held them outside of herself, protecting herself from the pain of carrying them deep within. It was as if she carried all the memories in her jars. But if doing so, it was as if she'd also kept everyone else - those still in her life - at arm's length too.

Let your children know that if they have anything to tell you about something that has happened, you will always believe them. Fear that they won't be believed or uncertainty over what to say or how to talk about what's happening keeps many kids silent. Let your children know you will listen, care, and act.7

And I'm so thankful that I've been allowed to show another side of Trish.

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

È terribile quando il nostro destino dipende dal capriccio di un'unica persona.

Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second. Sonea: I love you too.

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

The last young lady I met stabbed me. You know I'm cursed when it comes to women.

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Perhaps everything terrible in us is, in its deepest being, something helpless needing our help. — Rainer Maria Rilke

One 'take me, eat me' is worth a hundred thousand 'protect me, save me's'.

the dragon is not slain or even fought against, but drawn out and fearlessly nurtured

Callum's pull is irresistible now. He needs him. Adam is falling desperately, physically, finally in love, and suddenly it feels like a very long way to fall. Please catch me, he thinks. Please be there when I land.

It was strange to realize that a dragon who couldn't be hurt on the outside could have so many ragged holes on the inside.

Well, then, maybe she needed more friends so that some of them could be expendable. If anything happened to Clay right now, it would be the END OF ALL THINGS. She would literally burn down the world.

Ow!" he yelped, but he didn't fight her off as she twined her tail with his and wrapped her wings around him.

Maybe she needed more friends, so that some of them could be expendable.