Quotes About Vulnerability

We were all disconnected now. And I didn't know when the switchboard had gone down. What if he'd . . . drowned?

He cleared his throat. When she jerked her gaze to his face, he raised his eyebrows. Caught ogling the prey! The indignity! What is wrong with me?

Past tense. It's one thing to like a girl who wants another guy. It's another to like a girl who plans to murder you at a time of her convenience.

Arthur, I…I'd just been released from a mental institution.' She looks up at me from under he lashes, gauging my reaction while seeming to dread it. I just stop my jaw from dropping. 'Mental institution?' I'd been sick the last quarter of my sophomore year, so my mom made me go to a clinic in Atlanta.' This girl's been heaven-sent for me! I, too, had been sick. Until I'd tested my concoctions on myself, eventually discovering a cure.

Don't close me out." He curled his finger under my chin, all tenderness, even as he said, "How could I close you out when I never let you in?

You knew I'd say I'd protect you? And that vexes you? Should I have said that you're shite out of luck and all on your own, but thanks for the hot fuck!

I stopped trying to bandage my mind and said, 'Let it fucking bleed.'" His hold on me tightened. "But it didn't, Victoria. My wounds were seared and closed.

I will never be your perfect Viking, Regin! I've made unforgivable mistakes. I've no family or friends, and my men hold no love for me. I'm scarred inside and out. And I'm bloody askin' for you anyway!

Animals will be slaughtered mercilessly. Children, women and the elderly will be neglected and abused.

I was thinking about his hands on me. Nobody had ever treated me like that. Not ever. But now they had. And how was I ever going to forget it? I would never. I would never.

Why would I assume that the guy wanted to hurt me when nobody's ever tried to hurt me before?

I adore my mother, but I fear for her. She seems helpless, caught in the vortex of my father's dark moods and unpredictable behavior. I try never to displease her. I love the scent of Juicy Fruit gum on her breath and the hint of Joy perfume on her neck, the crisp crinkle of her hair stiff with aerosol spray and the chipped pink polish on her nails.

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak have to be strong enough to leave.

Their mastery of technology was their greatest strength. But their utter reliance on it was, ironically, their greatest weakness.

I feel the weight of his chest on top of me as he finally collapses; I close my eyes and try to bring myself back to earth. I might have been safer at Dave

As we stay there, pressed against each other, the room smelling of coffee and sex, I hear him mutter . . . perhaps to himself, perhaps to me, "Last time, my ass.

You are the only woman I know who is as sexy when she unapologetically takes what she wants as she is when she pleads for release.

She shrugs, smiles. "All you ever had to do was ask.

I feel rather blue to-night. I am a horrid little goose, I know - but the trouble is, I can't help being a horrid little goose.

but there is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time. - said the Wizard As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it? asked Dorothy. from Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz

An unsuspected enemy is doubly dangerous.

I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such small things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is!