Quotes About Vulnerability

The Kiss 'I saw you take his kiss!' "Tis true.' 'O modesty!' "Twas strictly kept: He thought me asleep—at least, I knew He thought I thought he thought I slept.

If you stay friendly with monsters you can find cracks in their armor to exploit. Shut them out and they can kill you without a second thought. I reminded myself of this over and over.

Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.

Some people never say the words 'I love you', for like a child they're longing to be told.

Some people never say the words 'I love you'. It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told

I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, because in my life (and she seemed to know this) I had not loved anyone without having been wounded. Love was power and possession, love caused pain: you were never more exposed than when you were in love, never more wounded; possession was an enslavement, something stifling.

I guessed it was a migratory bird, too innocent to be wary of the spiders in the jungle grass. It worried be to think that we were a little like that bird

Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut yourself opening a can of tuna fish and you die. One puncture in your foot and your life leaks out through your toe. What are they for, moose antlers? Get down on all fours and live. You're protected on your hands and knees. It's either that or wings.

desperation is often a rationale for exploitation

How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?

Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.

She let them go all night and in the mornings would find them coming toward her where she slept, with that alert and nervous air unridden horses always have at dawn. They are remembering some far time when predators came for them at first light. So they came toward her with the strange and painful air of fallen angels, treading carefully and slowly as if the earth were foreign soil.

On the contrary, they wanted to hear her scream; and the sooner the better. The pride she mustered to resist and remain silent did not long endure: they even heard her beg them to untie her, to stop for a second, just for a second.

She was vanquished, undone, and humiliated that she had moaned.

It was true that she had been passed from hand to hand as often as were the prostitutes in brothels, so why should they treat her otherwise?

a reviewer should never be afraid to make a fool of himself.

Únicamente en los momentos en los que me haces sufrir cuando no corro peligro. No debiste aceptar ser un dios para mí, si los deberes de los dioses te dan miedo, y todo el mundo sabe que los dioses no son tan tiernos. Ya me has visto llorar. Ahora te queda el tomarle el gusto a mis lágrimas.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

To love is to lose control.

But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

I am surprised how difficult for people is to say I love you. They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear I love you too back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave

No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.