Quotes About Vulnerability

Roman emperors and their advisors never solved the problem of succession. They were defeated in part by biology, in part by lingering uncertainties and disagreements about how inheritance should best operate. Succession always came down to some combination of luck, improvisation, plotting, violence and secret deals. The moment when Roman power was handed on was always the moment when it was most vulnerable.

And I'm stabbed." She felt vulnerable and fought a rush of tears. "He's not going to hurt you," Adler said.

You said you'd not get weird after sex.

Maybe the kind of love that made your heart leap into your throat was the kind that could kill you.

Too nice was a thief, robbing bits of your life out from underneath you, one experience at a time.

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

Not just romantic love, but love so deep, so full of respect, so full of gratitude for saving her from loneliness. He'd protected her when no man ever had before. She didn't even fear it or regret how vulnerable it made her to love Gage. It was too powerful, too wonderful.

care to explain, so he turned her into his arms and kissed her. When he pulled away, her eyes blinked open as if her lids were almost too heavy to hold up. "You really shouldn't kiss me like that, Rafe. I swear when you do it, I can't seem to think clearly." "Why don't you just relax and let me do the thinking for the both of us for a while?

Let's go,' he said, 'I'll need something to lean on, and you look like you'd make a good crutch.

Relationship without communication is having sex without foreplay..

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took...

Love is a minefield. You take a step and get blown to pieces put yourself back together again and stupidly take another step. I guess that's human nature. It hurts so much to be alone that we'd all rather blow up than be single.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable.

A woman is truly beautiful only when she is naked and she knows it.

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

3 things I want in a relationship: Eyes that wont cry, lips than wont lie, and love that wont die.

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

Seven days without love makes one weak.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.