Quotes About Vulnerability

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

I don't have tattoos, I have scars!

My scars from abuse made me insecure. And so I had to cover up my scars with tattoos.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.

I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.

I don't know how to make tea.

I have been a cry baby since my childhood. Even teachers were scared of my crying.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'

Sometimes, it's hard for me to communicate my discomfort because I want to be respectful. At the same time, I've learned that you have to ask people on your team to help you out.

But I think it's important admitting to my teammates, Hey, I'm really struggling right now, and can you help me out?' Or, This serve is really killing me in the seam, can you take a step and take it for me so I can go and hit and have a better shot next time?'

With my teammates, I'm more open, funnier than people see me.

I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I'd live in such fear of losing another person.

And as I did it, it was like pierc­ing my own heart at the same time.

I suppose I can understand her wanting to hide from Neil...¨ I began, my mind spinning. Because she was Dhampir, Moroi could have gotten her pregnant. Well, a human could have as well, but most people in the mainstream Moroi world weren't taking after Adrian and me. ¨But why Nina? Especially since they were so close? Unless... oh.¨ My heart sank. ¨Maybe... maybe whatever happened wasn't consensual.¨

You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.

It was like we were starving or drowning, and only the other person could save us.

Es difícil cuando una persona pude ver tu alma. Te fuerza a abrirte. A ser vulnerable. Es mucho más fácil estar con alguien que sólo es un amigo ocasional. • capítulo 23

We had been too warm, too alive. Death couldn't follow something like that.

I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I'd live in such fear of losing another person. Was that how everyone in love felt? Did they all cling tightly to their beloved and wake up terrified in the middle of the night, afraid of being alone? Was that an inevitable way of life when you loved so deeply? Or was it just those of us who walked on a precipice who lived in such a panic? I

wished desperately that I could paint her in these moments and immortalize that look in her eyes. There was a softness in them that I rarely saw at other times, a total and complete vulnerability in someone who was normally so guarded and analytical in the rest of her life. But although I was a decent painter, capturing her on canvas was beyond my skill.

What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.