Quotes About Vulnerability

The Claudias also need laughter and play, they need people who will celebrate life with them and manifest their joy of being with them. It was this joy and the gentle presence of Nadine and the others in Suyapa that gradually weakened Claudia's great walls of defence. Little by little, she began to trust that she was not bad, but capable of loving and being loved.

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

You live in a glass house, Mr. Smith.

Il créait dans leur couple une zone d'ombre d'où pourrait sortir le meilleur comme le pire.

Love is terribly sincere and great. I suppose that is why so many people are afraid of it, and so few can live up to it. — Bliss Carman to Gladys Baldwin, 1915 (age 52)

This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave

I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.

I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.

She's aware that she and her companions represent something to these men. They look like home. Or they look like salvation. Or they look like prey. To an halcón they might look like reward money.

Her body feels like cracked glass, already shattered, and held in place only by a trick of temporary gravity. One wrong move and she will come to pieces.

One of the very first bullets comes in through the open window above the toilet where Luca is standing.

she feels as tatty as a scrap of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing.

It's a common tactic for bad actors to ride the trains posing as migrants, working to gain the trust of unsuspecting travelers, so they can lure them into a secluded place where they can commit some violence against them.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.

revealing Jane in all her blood-soaked glory,

Dents in your mutual armor. No wonder you both look battered.

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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable distribution naturally breeds resentment and feelings of hopelessness that the dependent person dare not express for fear of alienating the necessary person even more.

The further you move away from experiencing your emotions, the more distant you become from others, as well as from yourself.