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Quotes About Vulnerability

Well, this might sound stupid but I think he was my best friend. Like the other half of me. I'm so scared something might have happened to him when he went back. I miss him so much sometimes I look at windows and I want to just walk right through them -- like press myself through the glass. I want their sharp edges to fragment me.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
If you're looking pretty and your hair's all shiny, and there's a glint in your eye, and you say sorry like you mean it, and then kiss me on the mouth and let your hand kind of slip under my shirt so it's on my back, well, I'd sure forgive and forget.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Gingerly, Daniel reached toward the infant. "What if she doesn't like me?" "She'll spit acid in your eye and you'll die a horrible death," Kara joked.
~ Unknown
Et là, secouée par les sanglots, je me suis trouvée acculée, trop tard, bien trop tard, à me rendre compte que moi aussi j'avais aimé, que je pouvais souffrir, et que, en somme, j'étais humaine.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
Aside from being terrifying, it was totally humiliating. Rose Tyler, Barbie doll.
~ Jacqueline Rayner
Sit down and talk to the man, for God's sake. You didn't know that love was a high-risk business? It surely is. But not taking the risk is terrible,
~ Unknown
She pulled into a fetal position, covered her head with the road atlas, and cried with a violence that shook the car. Their
~ Unknown
will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty
~ Jacqueline Wilson
his own crumpled handkerchief on me. I sniffed and dabbed at my eyes fiercely. I told myself I was only tearful because I was tired. I knew Diamond was looking at me anxiously.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
I sniffed and dabbed at my eyes fiercely. I told myself I was only tearful because I was tired.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?
~ Jacqueline Woodson
No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena
~ Jacqueline Woodson
When you're 15, pain skips over reason, aims right for the marrow.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
We were four girls together, amazingly beautiful and terrifyingly alone.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I have all this stuff—all these thoughts going on inside me and they all seem so—so dangerous." —Tyler
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I hid you from them, you know, she said—like she was looking into my head finally. Seeing something there. That's how you got here. They were hella good Catholics back then, but you would have been dust. From who?
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Being left is easier, elicits more sympathy, gives reason for tears.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I wanted to climb into her world and live in it with her. She was beautiful and kind and funny and identified as "certified crazy." I learned that certified crazy meant nothing to lose, nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be self-conscious about.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I'll always remember our first night together, you so flushed and shy, me knowing what I know but scared too because you are the first one I loved. We poured our loneliness into each other and filled the emptiness and dark corners of this place with joy. I think of your long straight back, your strong legs, your hair on the pillow, your dark eyes close, and say your name over and over...it is the sound of bells.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
~ Unknown
dead fish protected by cans cans protected by windows windows protected by cops cops protected by fear so many barricades for six pitiful sardines
~ Jacques Prévert
Nuestro amor tirita y el sol también.
~ Jacques Prévert
Drumurile în?elepciunii sunt marcate de curajul de a fi ?i for?a de a se putea confrunta cu am?r?ciunile neîn?elegerii ?i uneori ale solitudinii. Cel care le întâlne?te, care accept? s? le str?bat?, care se aventureaz? spre necunoscut, spre ira?ional, nu ?tie niciodat? ce va descoperi la cap?t, astfel încât va trebui s? accepte s? se iubeasc? pentru a putea fi un bun tovar?? pentru el însu?i.
~ Unknown