Quotes About Vulnerability

Los boxeadores chilenos son todos unos maricones, los habitantes de este país de mierda son todos unos maricones, todos sin excepción, dispuestos a dejarse engañar, dispuestos a dejarse comprar, dispuestos a bajarse los pantalones cuando uno sólo les ha pedido que se quiten el reloj.

For a moment I thought he was going to cry, but suddenly, before he said anything, I realized that I'd be the one who cried, that inevitably, it would be me who cried.

Je loopt altijd gevaar. Dat is de zuivere waarheid. Je loopt altijd gevaar en bent een speelbal van het lot, zelfs op de meest onwaarschijnlijke plaatsen.

Ik ben voor geen enkele vorm van schoonheid immuun.

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children.

One is prepared for friendship, not for friends.

They're afraid I'll die," Prajapati thought. "They'll always be afraid I'll die, and they'll always be trying to kill me.

Sex is one of the most important aspects of a healthy relationship, and finding your sexy self adds to the feeling that you're with the right person.

Conversation became strained as they each waited for a sign that they would not be rebuffed.

There's something about seeing people when they have just wake up--before they have a chance to put on the face they show everyone else. There's like this last hint of innocence.

Instead, he was still acting distant from her in many subtle ways, and although they continued to sleep in the same bed, there had been no intimacy whatsoever. Such behavior raised an old concern of hers that Daniel was either incapable or unmotivated to offer the kind of emotional support she felt she needed, particularly in period of stress, no matter what the cause or whose fault it was. (Stephanie)

Clare," he said, his voice thicker with desire. He made himself concentrate on the road, on driving, though his peripheral vision showed her breasts rising faster. "Yes?" she asked, quiet, more vulnerable. That vulnerability called out to him now more than ever before . . . because he knew he was flawed so badly. "I like you." Hell, that sounded dumb.

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

His cracked lips moved. Beloved. He couldn't say the word, but I knew it. And so did his Fool.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

Honour and courtesy and justice...they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them to us like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are no shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims.

Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.

I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being "heartbroken" or "heavy-hearted" but I had never known it was an actual sensation one felt when the whole world abandons you

Once one knows what heartless people can do, it cannot be entirely forgotten. It always remains among the possible things that can befall you.

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become