Quotes About Vulnerability

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts not measured words, but pouring them right out, just as they are.

Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

There's something physical that changes with a person's appearance when they suddenly open up to you.

They stared at me, at Isaac, and then at the floor rather than at each other, as if they had long since come to terms with the fact that on any given evening men could burst into their house and do something terrible to them. There's no honest measure for the toll that sort of knowledge takes, whether the scale is the breadth of a single room or an entire city.

Entretanto o tempo voava; sem reparar nos homens, passava aqui e ali pelo mundo, mortificando as coisas bonitas; e ninguém conseguia escapar-lhe, nem mesmo as crianças recém-nascidas, ainda desprovidas de nome.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.

God be thanked, the meanest of His mortals, Has two soul-sides, one to face the world with; One to show a woman when he loves her.

Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.

From the half-open doors of this chiffonier hung laces, ribands, stockings, ladies' underclothing and an abdominal brace, which gave the impression that the feminine finery had suffered venery.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Nora aveva la faccia di tutti coloro che amano gli altri - una faccia che sarebbe diventata cattiva quando avrebbe scoperto che amare senza riserve è essere traditi.

She speaks of people taking away her 'faith' in them, as if faith were a transportable object—all her life she has been subject to the feeling of 'removal.

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Love us when we are dirty, not when we are clean. Anyone will love us when we're clean.

public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one's vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist strategy. Writing is tough work, I don't see how anyone can really write from a position of weakness. Sometimes I may start out in that position, but the act of commandeering words flips me into a position of power.

I couldn't stand to be alone, yet I didn't want anyone to witness my dailiness, an indiscriminate collage of fragments, random encounters.

I strengthen the muscles around my heart, but I can't harden it.

Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.

En el éxito de taquilla Annie, la huerfanita de rulos pelirrojos tiene un optimismo inclaudicable: «El sol saldrá mañana» . A pesar de vivir en la pobreza y el abandono Annie se niega a ver su estado de orfandad como algo permanente. No ha aprendido a ser indefensa y vulnerable, y su personaje representa todo lo opuesto: la esperanza.

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

Disclose your hopes, dreams, loves, joys, and sorrows so people will be able to identify with you. We all share these basic emotional experiences.

Every love story is a small boat set upon an open sea.