Quotes About Vulnerability

Blackman looked beneath. Kristin could almost feel the nurse's gaze on her totally exposed crotch.

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

Why do you tell me... so much? Luthe considered her. I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know-- He stopped.... Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.

Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.

She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.

I said with perfect honesty, I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.

Your Chalice, Master, sees all things clearly, which is both her strength and her weakness.

Narknon put a paw on Harry's chest and began licking her face; a hunting-cat's tongue is much harsher than a housecat's. Harry thought her skin would crumble and peel off, but she didn't have the strength to push her away.

I was not frightened, but I was ashamed. "I'm sorry," I said. The claws retreated, and his arm dropped. "Don't be," he said. "I don't mind telling you." He looked at me. "But perhaps you mind being told.

Marian... turned her face at last; there were tear marks on it, and Robin felt a pricking behind his own eyes, that Marian should cry over him.

allowing him to abuse us emotionally because "he was never allowed to express his feelings before" • finding him a job.

Nuestra propia necesidad de amor, atención, cariño y seguridad quedó insatisfecha mientras fingíamos ser más poderosas y menos temerosas, más adultas y menos necesitadas, de lo que realmente nos sentíamos.

Enfrentándoos a las cosas que os asustan es el modo de reclamar un poder que habíais olvidado. Y un modo de recuperar la inocencia y el asombro que perdisteis tras vuestra infancia.

It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. It's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. When

most of us share the same fears: a fear of rejection, a fear of failure, a fear of not being good enough, a fear of being alone, a fear of losing control and a fear of success.

Tienes que seguir rompiendo tu corazón hasta que se abra».

you are most alive when your heart beats quickest. And we are most awake when our fears scream loudest." "So

only people who are capable of loving strongly can suffer great sorrow

Walking into the very things that scare you is how you reclaim your forgotten power. And how you get back the innocence and awe you lost after childhood.

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

To build deeper friendships, you must be willing to move out of your comfort zone, break the ice with people you might not know very well and show sincere warmth.

Perhaps the things that break our hearts are the very things that serve to open them.