Quotes About Vulnerability

even further, and I shivered inside my wool coat as I trudged back to my car, two grocery bags in hand. I wanted to go home, but I still had the crushed vials. Where could you dispose of broken glass and no one would notice?

What is it about returning to my mother's house that immediately turns me into a five-year-old?

Let's just say that on my way down here, I embraced my inner klutz.

Im~Freaking~Pervious!!!! ~ Eve

It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.

A man who can't love but desperately needs to be loved is a dangerous thing indeed.

You know, sweetheart, I know I'm fucked up. But if you think the guy trying to protect you instead of walk all over you is the one trying to run your life, you're just as fucked up as I am.

If you're worried I'll bite, I promise to tell you first.

G,We're here and we prey on you.

The human body was a thing of beauty because so many structures protected the heart, but she realized that the human heart simply could not be protected, not by muscle, not by bone, not by anything.

After they had made love, Hank fell fast asleep

wanted her to be alive. I had taken alive for granted. Anguish

she had trained him to think she didn't need him.

Judy woke up on her back in the parking lot.

Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

I've had to think about the dark shadow side of friendship. This is the person who knows and loves you best, which means she knows all the ways to hurt and betray you.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above.

A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.

I saw that deep-heart love meant loving someone in spite of and because of his limitations.

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

It was easier for me to begin picking at Snow Flower's faults than to feel the emotions raging inside of me.

Sometimes you think you have all of tomorrow ahead of you,' Mama often said. 'When the sun is shinning, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above.

You are a little girl, so you are still in milk days.

The typhoon that hit us wasn't the worst we'd ever experienced, but we were all so much weaker in our bodies and minds that the impact was just one more remorseless blow.