Quotes About Vulnerability

Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.

I'm not hungry," Alexander whispered. "I'm famished. Watch out for me. Now, don't make a single sound," he said, moving on top of her. "Tania, God....I'll cover your mouth, just like this, and you hold on to me, just like this, and I'm going to-just like this-

All grimy and sweaty, Alexander drew her to him, his palms on her back, and bending to her and tilting his head, whispered into her mouth, "Tatiasha, I know you won't believe this, but if I'm looking at the sheets when I'm making love to you, we've got a bigger problem than what damn color they are.

Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.

Open your eyes, soldier," Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face."Are you hungry?" "I was hungry," Alexander said. "But you fed me." His body was shaking underneath his sheet.

What a prison you have set up for me with your first love." She put her arms tighter around him and said teasingly, "Oh, so the first love part you believe, but the first kiss part you have a problem with? What kind of girl do you think I am?" "The nicest girl," he whispered.

Alexander looked into the barrel of one of the guns. He blinked. O God, please look after Tania all alone in the world.

If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.

Come on," he said quietly, bending to her and lifting her whole into his arms. He carried her inside. After setting her down next to the sink, he crushed five trays of ice into it and filled it with cold water. Tatiana thought he was going to tell her to put her face into it, and was about to meekly impotently protest—when Alexander submerged his own head into the ice.

What strength he once possessed had left his body and gone to a tiny girl with freckles.

E non me lo hai nascosto. Niente affatto. Hai lasciato il tuo amore in bella mostra, non lo hai chiuso in un armadio. Marina aveva ragione. Ero cieca. Lo hai lasciato in mille posti perché io lo vedessi. Adesso li vedo tutti e mi fanno male. Ma tu eri una bambina. Come poteva una bambina amare qualcuno?

Tania…where did you get all those freckles?" he asked softly. "I know, they're so annoying. It's the sun," she replied, blushing and touching her face as if wanting to scrub off the freckles that covered the bridge of her nose and spread in sprinkles under her eyes. Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart. "What about your blonde hair?" he continued, just as softly. "Is that the sun, too?

Underneath his battle armor, the man who commanded an armored battalion needed her. If he was wounded, she could bandage him. If he was hungry, she could feed him. If he wanted to talk to her, there she was.

If someone is giving us something, thats because were incapable of getting it for ourselves.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

Whoa! Hey, what are you doing? I'm attaching myself to you. Because I'm a kid. Spoil me.

See what I mean? You fell off. You're such a damsel in distress.

no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

La vida o la contraseña?, la apuntaló con la mano empuñada como si fuera un arma. Usted es mi vida, dijo ella amorosa, caracoleándose en su abrazo. ¿Y la contraseña? Tendría que obligarle a mi corazón que se la cante.

Cuando alguien te patea, quedás alerta como si no hubiera nadie de tu lado, y cuando de pronto alguien te trata bien bajás la guardia y te desarmás. El cariño te derrumba.

Podréis quitarme las monedas que llevo encima, podréis quitarme el reloj de mi muñeca y las llaves que llevo en el bolsillo, podéis quitarme hasta la vida; sólo hay una cosa que no podréis quitarme, por mucho empeño que pongáis: el miedo que tengo.