Quotes About Vulnerability

Qué sutil ironía: justo cuando dejamos de querer matarnos, empezamos a morir. Cuando nos sentíamos fuertes, nos quedábamos sin fuerzas.

Desearíamos poder mostrarles el mundo mientras duermen. Así no tendrían ninguna duda de cuan similares, cuan confiados, cuan sorprendentes y vulnerables somos todos.

And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear?

I am in love with someone who's afraid of the future. And like a fool, I keep bringing it up.

With the right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day. But it helps to have it late at night.

Our kisses were seismic. When seen by the wrong person, they could destroy us. When shared with the right person, they had the power of confirmation, the force of destiny.

Preferir o medo de estar com a pessoa errada por não ser capaz de lidar com o medo de ficar sozinho.

No existe nada más doloroso que contemplar a alguien cuando pierde la confianza en ti. En especial, si se trata de tu madre.

If you're used to people being shitty, it's hard to accept niceness. Your instinct is to fuck it up. And run the hell away.

When you're telling the truth, you should look terrified and exhilarated at the same time, because telling the truth is navigating both of those feelings at the same exact time.

I know our nakedness means something. I know our nakedness is as much a form of trust as it is a form of craving. This is what we look like when we are completely open to each other. This is where we go when we no longer want to hide -A

I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open, and it started to rust.

I want to see you, whoever you are. And I want you to see me, whoever I am. All or nothing. Now or never.

What we're going to do is be there for each other. We are going to be honest and we are going to share our lives and we are going to make mistakes, often with each other's feelings. But we are going to be there. Day in, day out. Because I don't want you to be my date, A. I don't want you to be in my life and back out of it. I want you to be my constant. That, to me, is the whole point of love -Rhiannon

Sé que esta desnudez significa algo. Sé que esta desnudez es señal de confianza, que es señal de deseo. Así es como somos cuando nos abrimos el uno al otro completamente. Aquí es adonde venimos cuando no queremos seguir escondiéndonos

She's holding it together, too, and I want to tell her she doesn't have to do that for me, because I might not be able to do it or her. I can tell she's also trying not to look back, but she does it - she looks over her shoulder - and the tears won't leave her eyes.

Sinto uma ternura por essas conversas noturnas e vulneráveis, pelo modo com que as palavras assumem uma forma diferente no ar quando não há luz no quarto. Penso nas raras noites de sorte quando terminei o dia na casa de um amigo ou dividindo o quarto com um irmão ou amigo o qual gostava de verdade. Essas conversas me faziam acreditar que eu podia dizer qualquer coisa, mesmo quando estava escondendo tanto

Love is so painful, how could you ever with it on anybody?

That dehumanizing loss of safety. It is something all of us feared and many of us knew firsthand.

are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

But Harry is shaking. He can't help it—he's shaking. He can't believe what happened, and knows he shouldn't be embarrassed, but he is. He feels reduced, ridiculed. By shitheads.

En este sitio, en este momento, somos quienes queremos ser. Soy afortunado porque yo no necesito mucho coraje. Pero otros, en cambio, necesitan una valentía enorme para estar aquí.

Nothing. Because wasn't that how I felt that day? If you zoom close- if you really get close to someone, if you really get close to yourself- then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anymore. Your mind becomes all these abstract fragments. English becomes math.

I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand. Since trust isn't an option, you don't have to get all freaked out about maybe having to trust him.