Quotes About Vulnerability

Even desperate people are slow to ask for help.

If you feel ugly you will experience shame. The two are bound together.

What is the way out of shame? It is the way of humility, not humiliation. It is the way of being known, not exposed.

You can't have a deeper relationship if you won't allow yourself to be known. All

Tante Atie once said that love is like rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That makes papa feel weak, she says. He gets angry when he feels weak.

I'm afraid to be shy, distant, and cold. Page 11

What if my becoming fully aware of the frequency of such moments makes me terrified to leave my house?

Freedom is a passing thing, a man said. Someone can always come and snatch it away.

From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so she tried her best to have everything out in the open.

I am too easily swayed by every story I hear, or see, or witness, especially the tragic ones," she said. "I think this is going to be the story of my life. I'm going to be the girl who is too easily swayed by other people's stories.

I felt broken at the end of the meeting, but a little closer to being free.

From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so she tried her best to have everything out in the open.

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow everywhere descending

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow everywhere descending

there's a strength in not being strong.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Mais c'est faire un pacte avec le diable, car il perd son âme, celui qui veut être religieusement aimé. Elles m'ont obligé à feindre la méchanceté, je ne leur pardonnerai jamais ! Mais que faire ? J'avais besoin d'elles, si belles quand elles dorment, besoin de leurs adorables gestes de pédéraste, besoin de leurs pudeurs, si vite suivies d'étonnantes docilités dans la pénombre des nuits, car rien ne les surprend ni ne les effraie qui soit service d'amour.

Femelle, je te traiterai en femelle, et c'est bassement que je te séduirai, comme tu le mérites et comme tu le veux. A notre prochaine rencontre, et ce sera bientôt, en deux heures je te séduirai par les moyens qui leur plaisent à toutes, les sales, sales moyens, et tu tomberas en grand imbécile amour, et ainsi vengerai-je les vieux et les laids, et tous les naïfs qui ne savent pas vous séduire, et tu partiras avec moi, extasiée et les yeux frits !

Como eu gostaria de poder tirar fora, como o desdentado que tira a dentadura para depositá-la num copo d'água junto ao leito, tirar meu cérebro para fora de sua caixa, tirar meu coração que bate demais, esse pobre infeliz que cumpre bem demais seu dever, tirar fora meu cérebro e meu coração para mergulhá-los, esses dois pobres milionários, em soluções refrescantes, enquanto eu dormisse como um menininho que nunca mais voltarei a ser.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Talk to me. I'll believe anything.

Emotional Vampires are not intrinsically evil, but their immaturity allows them to operate without thinking about whether their actions are good or bad. Vampires see other people as potential sources for whatever they happen to need at the moment, not as separate human beings with needs and feelings of their own. Rather than evil itself, vampires' perceptual distortion is a doorway through which evil may easily enter.