Quotes About Vulnerability

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

Tu es tres belle quand tu marches dans les vestibules, quand tu empiles des livres, et quand tu pleures.

Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.

I collapsed next to him on the bed and he slowly peeled off the rest of my wardrobe. We made love by moonlight.

Taming the Lone Wolff #2236 Silhouette

You're a photographer, for Pete's sake. You need a photo of yourself front and center." "Well, yes, but..." A deep sigh followed on my end. How could I explain that I hated photos of myself?

If I was mad, it was in this, that I had believed such a possession would protect me from the assassin.

If I was mad, it was in this, that I had believed such a possession would protect me from the assassin. That was my lunacy. For no possession I owned had ever protected anyone I loved.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

We are no more than candles burning in the wind.

If anybody really wanted to shoot the president of the United States," Kennedy told his aide Kenneth O'Donnell on the morning of November 22, "it was not a very difficult job—all one had to do was get a high building someday with a telescopic rifle, and there was nothing anybody could do to defend against such an attempt.

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

People with Williams Syndrome are "hypersocial," and do not see danger in the faces of people who may be threats.43 They also tend to be mildly retarded and to suffer from other physical complications.

I want to protect innocent people from sin by locking them in cages, where the evil can't get to them.

It's scary to be a woman on a blind date. For all she knows the man she is meeting up with could be a rapist, a murderer, or, God forbid, a politician.

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

I had accepted beatings, loneliness, and near-starvation as normal because those things had helped me to survive. Now when these women undressed me, it felt like they were removing a shield that had become a part of me. As they peeled off layer after layer, I began to feel my age and started crying. With my tears I shed each fiber of responsibility I had in caring for my sisters and brother. I was finally being cared for as a child, and so the child inside me opened wide.

What happened to you as an infant and young child powerfully shapes how you see yourself and other people, what expectations you have for relationships, how you feel about yourself, and what defensive (and healthy!) habits you've learned.

Children who are emotionally abused and neglected face similar and sometimes worse mental health problems as children who are physically or sexually abused.

Without our caretaker's protection, our only protection is to stay small and build defensive structures into our personality.

It is not easy to give of yourself if you still have many unmet needs.