Quotes About Vulnerability

It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts

Any time you put all your eggs in one basket, you're just one stumble away from catastrophe. [Terri]

We fear jumping because we fear falling. We fear being broken. But still, jump we must, because it's only in jumping that we'll ever find someone to catch us.

That's the price of love," I said. "The risk of losing it. But it's worth the risk.

The cost of love is the risk of losing it." But it's always worth it. After all, in the end, what else is there?

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Don't trust anyone, not even your best friends. Love them, but never trust them completely. At critical times, they can be influenced to do things you don't want.

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.

The threat of being overwhelmed by difficult social interactions is dealt with by fixing a self-image in advance, by making oneself a fixed object rather than an open person liable to be touched by a social situation.

I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.

Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other.

You are playing cards with three Jeffs. One is your father, one is your brother, and the other is your current boyfriend. All of them have seen you naked and heard you talking in your sleep. Your boyfriend Jeff gets up to answer the phone. To them he is a mirror, but to you he is a room.

In the dream I don't tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.

Cut me open and the light streams out. Stitch me up and the light keeps streaming out between the stitches

Did he find that one last tender place to sink his teeth in?

You just wanted to prove that there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet.

You're going to die in your best friend's arms. And you play along because it's funny, because it's written down, you've memorized it, it's all you know. I say the phrases that keep it all going, and everybody plays along.

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.

Here we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say 'Please, for just one night, will you lay down next to me? We can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up?' But we both know how it goes – I say I want you inside me and you hold my head underwater. I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.