Quotes About Vulnerability

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.

One loose rivet or cracked weld line would have been enough to allow a few atmospheres to squirt out, and the ship would have been crushed like a soda can in the hand of a giant who was immensely strong and didn't like soda cans.

Nobody ever got rich by wearing a heart on their sleeve, unless it was someone else's heart.

Artemis and Holly stood there in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed space and time together, weathered rebellions, and tangled with demented despots. Coughed blood, lost digits, inhaled dwarf fumes, and swapped eyeballs, yet they found holding hands awkward. No1 knew he shouldn't, but he couldn't resist a parting crack. "I now pronounce you . . .

Sie haben diesen Mistkerl genau da erwischt, wo es wehtut: bei seinem Ehrgeiz.

Any of these vultures smell weakness, and they'll mess you up faster than sugar in a gas tank.

Du hast ja keine Ahnung, was du getan hast. Die beiden Welten auf diese Weise zusammenzubringen, könnte uns alle ins Unglück stürzen. Uns alle interessiert mich nicht, mir geht es nur um mich. Und glauben Sie mir, Captain, mir wird nicht das Geringste passieren.

I am older and have more control over my empathy," said Qwan. "That's why I didn't throw up." And having said that, he threw up.

Artemis en Holly stonden in hun ondergoed naast elkaar en haakten voorzichtig hun vingers ineen... 'Dan verklaar ik jullie hierbij...

28. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance.

People find particular things, however, frightening; and it's when someone is able to threaten or entice us with those that the man himself becomes frightening.

If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you? 29.

If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

Put up with being laughed at on occasion; look around you, and give yourself a good shaking to find out who you really are.

But pieces of paper do not stop bullets and rockets. Paper promises that fall from the sky cannot be trusted.

It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

Falling in love is like falling off a building—it doesn't hurt till the end.

A man's ego is a fragile thing; as fragile as a woman's heart

He looked like a brand-new heartbreak waiting to happen.

He dropped his towel. He showed me what I had gotten myself into, what wanted to get into me.