Quotes About Vulnerability

R?nile morale au particularitatea c? se ascund, dar nu se închid; totdeauna dureroase, totdeauna gata s? sângereze când le atingi, ele r?mân vii È™i deschise în inim?.

A nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak

Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.

Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.

You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about time or agony or the price they're going to have to pay for just about everything.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

The more you feel, the stronger you are.

Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn't been divulged.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

You couldn't see love, or touch it, or taste it, yet it could destroy you and leave you in the dark, chasing after your own destiny.

I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.

Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous

Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive.

what does love matter in a world where it's so easy to hurt someone?

Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.

He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the ones who try to save him. He's there to show us who we are. Human beings aren't gods. We makes mistakes.

Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that's true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really are.

Every woman is only one bad boyfriend or one bad choice away from the street. And she's only one good choice back to the path that will lead her home.

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.