Quotes About Vulnerability

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe—I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.

Wychodz? ze mnie wszystkie niepokoje, rozsypuj? si? na pod?odze jego garderoby.

I can already feel myself falling hard, something I've been known to do... All because she smiled at me. But it was a damn good smile. A genuine one, which is hard to come by these days. Especially when you're me.

I can already feel myself falling hard, something I've been known to do... All because she smiled at me. But it was a damn good one. A genuine one, which is hard to come by these days.

I can barely hear her because I am trapped in my mind and body, shivering and afraid. I suddenly feel like I have face blindness because no one looks familiar or nice, and my eyes are flying all over the gym, searching for help.

Let it out, all that stuff you're carrying around. You're pissed off at me, at your paretns, at life, at Eleanor. Come on. Let me have it. Don't disappear in there.

I shout, "I would like to welcome you to my death!" You might expect me to say "life," having just woken up and all, but it's only when I'm awake that I think about dying.

There are all the things I told him and he told me. I've never done that with anyone other than Saz- essentially waked up to them and said, 'Here is me. All the messy, unattractive things that I keep locked up inside. Every last ugly, broken, complicated piece.' And he didn't bat an eye. He just opened his mouth and showed me some of his own messy pieces. And instead of running away, he kissed me.

Das ist es, was ich mit Violet machen will: Ich will ihr das Gute geben und das Schlechte von ihr fernhalten, damit wir nur von Schönheit umgeben sind. (Finch)

It's been my experience that the people who are most afraid are the ones who hide behind mean and threatening words.

It's okay to be a person. We're all afraid. We all get hurt. It's okay to hurt. You'd be so much more likable if you just acted human.

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

Men are fools when it comes to women. It doesn't matter how smart you are, or how shrewd, or how much experience you've had. They're all born knowing just what it takes to find a way to muddle up your head. And given the chance, they do.

I don't want a Nazi to notice me and think, Jew. Because then I might die, too.

Because sex, good sex, involves a person's soul." What

Don't point out your flaws, because the world is not as sympathetic and nurturing as you think.

Someone has broken your heart. I knew there was something about you. That's it, isn't it?' A little," Sara said, suddenly self-conscious. I'm sorry.' It happens." She shrugged, straining for nonchalance. Maybe,' he said. 'But if it's your destiny, what can you do but accept it.

They didn't talk the way new lovers often do, sharing everything; they were selective and wary. Sometime it seemed to her their relationship was mostly physical, something she enjoyed.

It's the worst feeling," she said staring off vaguely, lost in another decade, "it's really the most shattering moment when you stop being enchanting to someone else. You're suddenly,,,just this person. And so is he.

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.

Love", I said, "is the rug they pull out from under you. Love is Lucy always lifting the football at the last second so that Charlie Brown falls on his ass. Love is something that every time you believe in it, it goes away. Love is for suckers, and I'm not going to be a sucker ever again.

It was the particular feel of him that made me want to go back: everything that is said is said underneath, where, if it does matter, to acknowledge it is to let on to your embarrassment. That I love you makes me want to run and hide.

That I love you makes me want to run and hide.