Quotes About Vulnerability

How we gets to the place where we scared to talk softness to each other.

You worry me, Catherine. You seem to think you're quite invincible." "I'm well aware that I'm not. But I'll not spend my life cowering. That would be no life at all.

Maybe in time, once your feelings for Dee deepen—" "That's my problem, Houston. I think I've fallen in love with her and I've got no earthly idea how to make her love me." -Dallas and Houston

Has any woman ever touched you?" she asked as she splayed her fingers over his thigh. "No." "Do you want a woman to touch you?" "No." She stilled, and Clay pushed himself up. He cradled her check in his palm. "I want you to touch me.

If you ever put yourself in harm's way like that again, I'll put you over my knee." "And do what?" she asked indignantly. He lifted his gaze to hers, and she saw the worry in his eyes, before he smiled. "Kiss your bare bottom.

Dr. Freeman said she couldn't have children. Christ, I'll never touch her again." "You'll touch her," Houston said. Dallas looked up, determination etched deeply in the lines of his face. "No, I won't." "Yes, you will. One night, she'll curl up against you, all innocent-like—" Compassion, understanding, and a wealth of sympathy filled Houston's gaze. "You'll touch her.

He'd built a wall around his heart to protect it, and she was slowly brick by brick, smile by smile, laugh by laugh, kindness by kindness, tearing it down. Tomorrow he'd refortify it. Tonight he simply wanted the haven she could provide.

But she'd lost a good deal of her innocence there, because she'd discovered so much she couldn't control.

And what about you, Frannie? he wanted to ask. Who will save you?

She could touch him however she wanted, say whatever she wanted. No holding back for fear of censure. No withdrawing for fear of judgment. With him, she could be herself completely and absolutely. Was herself completely and absolutely. Was more than herself as the world fell away. She was herself with him, with this man who accepted her openly, naughtiness and all. Who made her his own.

Then he began tearing at his clothes. She heard the linen rip and the buttons ping as they scattered over the floor. She thought she should be frightened by the frenzy, but instead she was fascinated that she could elicit such a reaction from a man. That he was fairly mad with wanting her.

She tiptoed her fingers along his back. "Were you really making love to me?" He rolled back over onto her. "If you have to ask, then I'm obviously not doing it well enough. Let me try a bit more diligently before I go searching for a dragon.

He grinned. "You're my first with no covering and I must say, I like it very, very much. I fear, Duchess, that you are going to have many children.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

This work was throwing me into the intimate functioning of people's lives.

she threw herself at the black fence, shrieking, wondering why she'd been abandoned.

My greatest fear had always been: The more you get to know me, the less there is to know.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

Sadly, no one in our family ever said, "I love you." Do you realize that? The truth is, I think we were all frightened of saying it, since the obvious reply would've been. "Well, if this is love, what is hate like?

David took off Saul's armor. He pulled off the false cover. He walked out to battle as his real self. He was able to defeat the giant because he was confident in his intimacy with God.