Quotes About Vulnerability

A king who trusts no man is weak.

Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.

It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.

You okay now ?" he asked. "Okay." He tightened his arms and lifted me off my feet. "Mercy?" he growled into my ear. I wrapped my legs around his waist. " Yeah" , I said. "Me too.

You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.

My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured

The snarl didn't make Adam's too-handsome features less handsome, but it would probably have scared anyone else. Me? I think I have some kind of subliminal death wish because Adam's anger makes me go weak at the knees, and not in a terrified sort of way.

You cannot look at a person, and say, 'If I could change this or that, if I could pick what I want and discard other things, I could love this one.' Such a love is pale and weak—and doomed to failure.

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

If you leave me naked and waiting on the bed without making love to me, I'll—" I didn't get to finish the threat. I think it was the word "naked," though maybe it was "bed," but before I finished my sentence, he was on me. Mercy to Adam

Love," he said, "is always a risk, isn't it? I've always thought that there were no certainties in life, but I was wrong. Love is a certainty. And love always gives more than it takes.

She had the sudden feeling that if she could look into those eyes for the rest of her life, she would be happy. It scared her a lot more than his anger had.

I break things, a lot of things, but I don't want one of them to be you.

It is generally a bad thing when someone hunting you is polite. It means they are sure they can take you anytime they want to.

Stop that , Anna scolded him. You don't need to hurt because I do. But I do , Charles replied, more honestly than he intended.

There's a difference between using someone and asking them for help—which you know very well.

There is something about having someone take care of you, even when you don't need it - maybe especially when you don't need it.

Why the rolling pin and not a knife?" he asked, his voice raspy with the need for action. She looked at him for the first time since she'd seen his face on the stairs. "A knife wouldn't even slow him down, but bones take time to heal." He liked that. Who'd have thought he'd get turned on by a woman with a rolling pin? "All right," he said. "All right.

There was something about that man when he was all angry and dangerous that got my blood up. Sometimes my survival instincts are not what they should be.

It would have been humiliating if he hadn't been clutching me back just as hard.

I see your fear, they told her, but no harm will come to you by me.

There is something about having someone take care of you, even when you don't need it – maybe especially when you don't need it.