Quotes About Vulnerability

there's a hell of a lot more to Jase Beckett than just his huge cock and his fat bank account.

that the one who protects her heart from fear of loss ends up with no heart at all. Just an

empty chest, because she has nothing to lose.

If you're worried about your very life, the last thing you want is small talk.

que nadie sepa que el niño interior no es la inocencia que guardamos como un cofre sino la orfandad que negamos como un crimen.

It took the hand of God almighty To part the waters and the sea But it only takes one little lie To separate you and me We are not as strong as we think we are.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely.

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

If, however, you take a moment to observe how you actually feel immediately after you criticise someone, you'll notice that you will feel a little deflated and ashamed, almost like you're the one who has been attacked. The reason this is true is that when we criticise, it's a statement to the world and to ourselves, "I have a need to be critical." This isn't something we are usually proud to admit.

Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. What're you thinking? What's made you so quiet? You seem suddenly different. What's the matter? Love me is what this means, of course. Or at least, second best: surrender. Or at the very least, take some time regaling me with why you won't, and maybe by the end you will.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

One of her classmates asked a prisoner what was the worst thing about being there. "The first time they fuck you in the ass," he replied, and this was the first time that she and her classmates learned about that kind of rape.

they found it easier to reject what they could not have than to admit the lack of it as a deficiency in themselves.

Thinking about it, he almost forgot that nightfall was approaching. With a start he looked up and saw Ben Cortman running at him from across the street. "Neville!" He jumped up from the porch and ran into the house, locking and bolting the door behind him with shaking hands.

Here we are, kiddies, sitting like a bug in a rug, snugly, surrounded by a battalion of bloodsuckers who wish no more than to sip freely of my bonded, 100 proof hemoglobin. Have a drink, men, this one's really on me.

The sobs came then, faster than she could swallow. A teacher dares not cry, not a real teacher.

I never knew how strong a drug other people are.

What we want, finally, from friends, is that they have no more clue than we do.

He can't figure out why people do what they do. His cluelessness only makes others keener to dupe him.

There are so many names for the thing that everyone is scared to death of, and everyone wants to tell you theirs.

I was thinking it's going to be cold again tonight. We may need to zip the bags together. I'm down with that. Every star in the galaxy rolls out above them, through the blue-black needles, in a river of spilled milk. The night sky- the best drug there was, before people came together into something stronger. They zip the bags together. You know, she says, if one of us falls, the other is going with. I'll follow you anywhere.

Un figlio scopre sempre le debolezze dei propri genitori. Le percepisce prima ancora delle parole, come una prima e ultima lezione. La debolezza può essere l'unica lezione dei genitori destinata a durare nel tempo. (p. 247)