Quotes About Vulnerability

If you get caught with your pants down, take 'em off.

As I lay there in my bed, with only the armor of my eyelids shut tight, I learned to completely leave my body. I learned to develop my escape fantasies into plans.

Get ready: The truth is too valuable to put safety first. Get set: No amount of exposure is unbearable unless you let it be. Go: If you get caught with your pants down, take 'em off.

As my love for her grew more poignant and more threatened my impatience and my weariness grew.

I reflected how easy it is for a man to reduce women of a certain age to imbecility. All he has to do is give an impersonation of desire, or better still, of secret knowledge, for a woman to feel herself a source of power.

Yet for all her solitariness, or her self-sufficiency, she lacked an overriding philosophy to help her deal with encroachments, incursions, and thus fell at the first fence.

The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.

I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

They were getting to know not only the details of each other's lives, but getting to know one another - a different thing. The process of getting to know anyone is not merely a matter of listening, watching, and understanding. M. Maurois has pointed out how, in any new relationship, we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

He was a pleaser, Robbie. Weak. He liked mixing it with the bad lads, but sometimes he got in out of his depth.

It's just that she always seemed indestructible. I never saw her tired or upset or vulnerable. She was one of those women who can face anything the world has to throw at her.

He enjoyed moderating all that bile and aggression. He was entertained, and it made him feel powerful. It wasn't just me he had a go at. He picked on anyone vulnerable.

She didn't sound scared. Excited, if anything. The invulnerability of the young.

She'd managed photographers who could make grown men cry, but Mrs Henry made her feel like a nervy six-year-old.

Vera had never been bothered by post-mortems. Dead people couldn't hurt you; it was the living you should be frightened of.

Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.