Quotes About Vulnerability

he was watching me and when our eyes met, i had no fan to cover my face, no way to hid my feelings. i was desperate for him, and he could see it, all the way in me.

Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated.

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance sale prices, mistaking screwing for caring.

Yeah, I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn't know anything. Now I know plenty and you can't fucking touch me.

So I leave proof of my existence behind me like a snail trail with the small hope that years of talking at me will someday soften her enough to talk with me, that she'll finally pull the knife from my chest and say yes, we are better off without him. That what happened wasn't my fault and from now on she will thrust herself between me and danger, and shout NO.

His groan was laced with both pain and pleasure.But that was okay.It was as it was supposed to be.Her eyes filled with tears.I will never keep myself from you.I will never discard your love like trash.Her voice caught with emotion.And I will never starve you. Alexander's eyes glittered with feelings.I can't... You can.You have to.She tipped up her chin and kissed him,soft and loving and hungry,her tongue slipping inti his mouth,playing with teeth,the tips of his fangs.

You're going to spread your legs so wide I can see every inch of you.Then you're going to fuck yourself.

Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do it

Most people are afraid of knives. If you show yourself willing to carve someone up, they tend to be afraid of you.

What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.

Who hit you? Why, so you can go beat him up? One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection. I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude. He hurt you. And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew, I said.

I want nothing more than to climb between the silk sheets and wrap our nude bodies around one another. I want to hold and be held. Sex is a wondrous thing, but tonight I wish to be comforted more than pleasured. I feel like a child in the dark who knows the monsters are under the bed. I want to be told it will be alright, but I am far too old to believe such comforting lies. - Jean-Claude

He's no more human than I am, ma petite. At least I'm not dead. That can be remedied.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

It would be nice if you'd stop almost killing me because you don't want to screw other peo­ple.

That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.

Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.

You don't smoke do you? No, why? They're afraid of fire. Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes. I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted…

Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.