Quotes About Vulnerability

Indeed, sometimes, if he was sufficiently shitfaced, Edward would even refer to me as Daddy.

Vera said: "Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?" So I told her why. Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.

but I think when you are trying so hard to hide your own truth, it's hard to see anyone else's." -Ruby

Hello there. I have been trying to lose my virginity and I picked you to do it with. Wondering what you're doing later on this afternoon?

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you'd be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you

I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

He could put up a gruff front and he was no angel, but he was really just trying to hide his sensitivities so that he could hang on to them.

An economy built on slave labor is vulnerable in two ways. One, availability of forced labor discourages technical innovation. The very wealthy [Roman]empire experienced no industrial revolutions. Two -- even more crucial -- slaves do not reproduce their own numbers. As Rome's wars of conquest ended, the slave population began to shrink, leading to a shortage of agricultural laborers by 200 A.D.

We realize how dangerous and painful life is if we don't open up. We know we have to do it. And as soon as we start to try, we realize immediately that there is no way that we could ever do this alone, because opening up means opening to what's around us, to others, to the world, and to our radical connectedness.

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

i loved you on purpose i was open on purpose i still crave vulnerability & close talk & i'm not even sorry bout you bein sorry you can carry all the guilt & grime ya wanna just dont give it to me i cant use another sorry next time you should admit you're mean/ low-down/ triflin/ & no count straight out steada bein sorry alla the time enjoy bein yrself

i am really colored & really sad sometimes & you hurt me more than i ever danced outta/ i am ready to die like a lily in the desert/ & i cdnt let you in on it cuz i didnt know/ here is what i have/ poems/ big thighs/ lil tits/ & so much love/ will you take it from me this one time/ please this is for you

i survive on intimacy & tomorrow/

though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

Hay?r, sizi de sevmemeliyim. Çünkü her zaman oldu?u gibi hayal k?r?kl??? bekliyor beni. Gene gülünç olmaktan korkuyorum. (Sesini yükseltir.) ?nsafs?z insanlar! Hayat gözya??na bakm?yor. Oysa insanlar?n merhametine muhtac?m ben.

büyük kalpler nedense çok zay?f oluyor…

?nsanlar ac?kl? sözler dinlemek istemiyorlar. Onlar? üzmek çok zor, kitab? surat?n?za kapat?veriyorlar, s?k???p kal?yorsunuz sayfalar?n aras?nda.

Tutunamayan(disconnectus erectus): Beceriksiz ve korkak bir hayvand?r. ?nsan boyunda olanlar? bile vard?r. ?lk bak??ta, d?? görünü?üyle, insana benzer. Yaln?z pençeleri ve özellikle t?rnaklar? çok zay?ft?r. Dik arazide yoku? yukar? hiç tutunamaz. Yoku? a?a?? kayarak iner…

Biz çocuk kalm?? bir milletiz. Çünkü her ?eye çocuk gibi sevinir, çocuk gibi üzülürüz her ?eye.

I'm man enough to know when to scream.