Quotes About Vulnerability

Did you have a love that grand?" I asked him. No. I never did. Did you? "No, and I wouldn't want to. It would be too painful if it failed." But to experience it once—even if it is painful—don't you think it would be worth it? Wouldn't you want to know what that kind of intensity is like? Wouldn't you want to feel that deeply? "I don't think most people can. Not the way I imagine it.

I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.

It was a strange moment, like when you get sad after sex, and it feels like it's too late in the afternoon, even if it's morning, or night, and you turn away from the other person, and they turn away from you, and you lie there, and when you turn back towards them you can both see each other's moles. Usually there seem to shadows from Venetian blinds all across your legs.

We were as strangers, in the moment-as intimate as strangers-for strangers know more of us, and can judge of us more without reproach than ever those we love.

Titus, I'm afraid of silence.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

No tengo amigos. Es demasiado peligroso" La ardilla miedosa.

Todos sentimos un gran temor al NO, un enorme temor al rechazo. Sin embargo, si no nos arriesgamos a recibir un NO, nunca recibiremos los SÍ. ¿Qué pasa si la gente nos dice NO? Si lo pensamos bien, no es tan grave.

Men are so simple, and yield so much to necessity, that he who will deceive may always find him that will lend himself to be deceived.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor.

Zerbrechliche Herzen sind fürs Schaufenster gut, nicht aber für den Kampf gegen das Böse.

What are a country's strengths, and where is it vulnerable? Is its political system controlled from the top or driven by pressures from below? Are neighbors friendly or hostile? What is the nation's self-image? Are the people in charge decisive and visionary, or insecure and unable to see beyond the present?

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

Sometimes, I think, you can look at a person and know they are full of words. Maybe the words are withheld due to pain or privacy, or maybe subterfuge. Maybe there are knife-edged words waiting to draw blood.

If they want to come for you, they will come, and it doesn't matter what you read or what you failed to read. The books on your shelves, the music you cherish, the past lives you've lived, all these details are just an excuse.

I felt she saw into me, past every facade and flourish, and that the more she knew me, the more she loved me. I was too young, then, to know how lasting this kind of love is, how rarely it comes in one's life, how difficult it is to accept oneself, let alone another.

Look at you quivering like a bag of fresh tofu!

How did Yiwen see her? Was she a sister, a friend, a confidant, something else? Here is the one thing in my life, Ai-Ming thought, that has no parameters. She wanted to tell Yiwen how she felt, but she was afraid to damage everything they had.

one of the joys of marriage is that one can be bad again.

He looked at her as if she had just said something surprising. He appeared almost vulnerable for a moment.

There is no parent more vulnerable to the excesses of overparenting than an unhappy parent. One of the most important things we do for our children is to present them with a version of adult life that is appealing and worth striving for.