Quotes About Vulnerability

Don't read my papers," I moan. "Don't." He steps back. "It's up there for anyone to see. Sorry.

Like my parents. That's their life I just described—but then, there they were, talking on the phone about my dad massaging my mom's groin area after yoga; cuddling on the couch; holding hands and wearing stupid Great Dane paraphernalia. That's all we can realistically hope for.

Eso fue amor, y me golpeó tan fuerte que me apoyé contra la pantalla de la puerta que seguía de pie entre nosotros, sólo para permanecer vertical.

It was love and it hit me so hard I leaned against the screen door that still stood between us,just to stay vertical.I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny,a kitten,something so special and soft your fingertips can't leave it alone.The universe was good because he was in it.I loved the hole in his jeans and the dirt on his bare feet and the scab on his elbow and the scar that laced through one eyebrow.Gat,my Gat.

Sessizlik, ac?n?n üzerindeki koruyucu bir z?rh gibidir.

Silence is a protective coating over pain. (p.29)

I bled on him and he didn't mind

Can I hold your hand?" he asked. "The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to." "I'm here.

She had deemed it unwise to reveal her soul.

If I, as a child, claim that something awful has happened—that someone has done something terrible to me—and everyone around me acts as if nothing is the matter, then either I must be crazy, or all of them are. And when you're a kid and your life depends on all these people, there is no choice: of course, I must be crazy.

The adult incest survivor is likely to become involved in sexual relationships with older or more powerful people…There is little room for intimacy and much opportunity for abuse and sacrifice…The survivor may continue to be 'child', rather than an equal.

her mother naked

You're afraid of everything. And I know it. And that's why you don't like me.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside...

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

He should know no one intimately, least of all a woman.

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

For human intercourse, as soon as we look at it for its own sake and not as a social adjunct, is seen to be haunted by a spectre. We cannot understand each other, except in a rough and ready way; we cannot reveal ourselves, even when we want to; what we call intimacy is only a makeshift; perfect knowledge is an illusion.

He was thinking of the irony of friendship—so strong it is, and so fragile. We fly together, like straws in an eddy, to part in the open stream.

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.