Quotes About Vulnerability

Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.

Thought you weren't afraid of anything." Turned out, she was afraid of plenty, including how just looking at him could change the rhythm of her heart.

He nodded, still holding her gaze in that way he had that convinced her that not only could he read her mind, but he could see right through her. Inside her.

Please don't look at me like that," she whispered. "Like what?" "Like you love me." His heart stopped. Just stopped. "I think I do," he said.

I think of my work as this kind of holy trinity — funny, dirty, sad. It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny. It's really easy to do sad, you just put on some sad music and write dramatically — everybody can do that. It's really hard to get dirty right.

I always feared there was something about me. Maybe some inability to be loved that men could sense left over from being raised without family ties. Maybe loneliness is like a flaw men can spot and so shy away from.

Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, You're a good man, Harry. I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves. Not always rational, she said, smiling. But you're the best kind of crazy.

Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.

Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.- -And? And it makes you vulnerable.

For a second, I wanted very badly to know a spell that would let me melt through the floor in a quivering puddle of please-don't-kill-me.

It isn't complicated. You just open up and let someone in. And whatever comes after that, you face it together.

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

She was furious that I had seen her true form, horrified and embarrassed that I had stripped her disguise away and seen the creature beneath. And she was afraid that I could take away even her mask, forever, with my power.

I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.

Love you. That should have been simple enough to say. But the words stuck hard in my throat. I'd never said them to anyone I didn't lose

When I look into someone's eyes, into their soul, their innermost being, they can see mine in return—the things I had done, the things I was willing to do, the things I was capable of doing.

Well. You've got me cornered, don't you? I'm at your mercy. Her lips quirked. She took a drag of her cigarette. And I like a man who just won't stop.

it would only take one dummy to kill us all, and we had four hundred and ninety-nine to spare.

You almost got yourself killed, she said, but her voice had softened a few shades. I noticed that she hadn't moved her hand from the other side of Billy's chest and he was looking up at her with an expectant expression. She fell silent, and they stared at one another for a minute. I saw her swallow. Please help me. Young werewolves in love.

My God, there are times when the sexiest thing a woman can give a man is permission.

Cell phones were like those security guys in red shirts on old Star Trek: as soon as something started happening, they were always the first to go.