Quotes About Vulnerability

She was determined to put behind her the madness of the past—or as much as a vulnerable and memory-racked mind permitted—

small bathroom she drew on her nightdress again in order

That's right. An unarmed population is an invitation for takeover.

We're all dying. That's what defines the condition of living.

I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.

Dwight again said: ' Caroline...' but this time as if all the cracks in his heart were widening.

Ross said quietly: 'Yes, I could sleep with you.' She smiled at him. He said: 'And for the same reasons will not.' 'Thank you, Captain.' He said: 'You've always been my firm friend – from so long ago. Almost before we knew each other well at all.' 'I believe I fancied you from the beginning.' 'I believe it was something more important than that, even then.

The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living one had to accept the risks.

Ross si avvicinò alla porta, vi appoggiò contro una mano. Gli occhi di lei adesso erano quasi asciutti e straordinariamente scuri.

In one respect a cavalry charge is very like ordinary life. So long as you are all right, firmly in your saddle, your horse in hand, and well armed, lots of enemies will give you a wide berth. But as soon as you have lost a stirrup, have a rein cut, have dropped your weapon, are wounded, or your horse is wounded, then is the moment when from all quarters enemies rush upon you. Such

What a slender thread the greatest of things can hang by. 1940, 10 AUGUST, CHEQUERS.

Fifty of the Infantry tanks were at home in a battalion of the Royal Tank Regiment, and the remainder were in training-schools. Never has a great nation been so naked before her foes.

Myself, I'm quite embarrassed, I, a human.

Masum olmama arzular?nda masumdular. Kollar?nda bir kad?n varken masumdular. Kavga ve dövüÅŸte masumdular. Ezberden ÅŸiirler okurken masumdular. Masumca davran?rlarken masumdular. Hatta kan dökerlerken, iÅŸkence yaparlarken, tecavüz ederlerken ya da söverlerken bile, bir mübarek masumiyetin tehdidindeydiler – ve bunlar?n hepsi, masumluÄŸun içine düÅŸmemek içindi.

If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice.

Little did I know—once smeared, always vulnerable.

I was dating whoever would say yes to my desperate pleas to let me feed them.

Hay un desprendimiento liberador en el acto de romper las hojas que uno ha escrito, acaso por haber notado en ellas la desnudez obscena de un par de sentimientos. Existe una soberbia mojigata remojada en pudores melancólicos detrás de la sospecha de que cuanto escribimos hace pocas semanas nos hace ver como unos cursis infumables: pornógrafos del sentimiento.

Amar es desnudarse de los nombres.

Porque hasta cuando sabes que no puedes confiar en nadie, te topas con que tienes que confiar. Confías una, dos, diez veces, hasta que claro: llega uno y te acuchilla.

Confías una, dos, diez veces, hasta que claro: llega uno y te acuchilla. Pero ese día no me traicionaron; me salvaron.

Porque hasta cuando sabes que no puedes confiar en nadie te topas con que tienes que confiar.

Cuántas veces se supone que deberías confiar? ¿En qué personas? ¿Cuántas, de cada cien, traen un puñal guardado? Cada vez que confías en alguien estás tirando dados. Puedes saber cuáles son tus probabilidades con los dados, pero no con la gente. Tiras no sabes cuántos dados, con sepa La Chingada cuántas caras.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.