Quotes About Vulnerability

Just once I want someone to be afraid of losing me," Phoebe said. "But the only thing Luke's afraid of losing is power.

I like you like this," Cassidy said. "Like what?" I asked as I merged onto Eastwood Boulevard. "Talking. You hold back if there are too many people around.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes

Why she would choose a town where she barely knew anyone, and a boyfriend who knew how broken felt.

This is so humiliating," I muttered as Cassidy wiggled out of her bra. "Well, it brings new meaning to the phrase 'booby trap,'" she teased, and we both laughed, a situation made infinitely more interesting due to the fact that she was topless.

To love requires loving others and letting others love you.

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.

Fall down with me, for now.

I felt like a mushroom. Mushroom? Yeah, Robert answered. To grow mushrooms you keep them in the dark, feed them manure, then when they grow up you cut them off at the root.

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

inertia did not grip her. She hid her fragility as best she could. Children

Trust opens people up to give you the truth, rather than just telling you what you want to hear.

The scariest question is the one you don't want to hear the answer to.

They'd slept together three times, the second time to see whether the first time was just because they'd been too drunk, and the third time to see if being sober the second time had put too much pressure on them.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

insurance against everything such as being trampled on by a herd of elephants, stung by a swarm of bees, injured by a meteorite falling out of the sky or death from contracting beriberi.

All alone, or in two's, The ones who really love you Walk up and down outside the wall. Some hand in hand And some gathered together in bands. The bleeding hearts and artists Make their stand. And when they've given you their all Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall.

Never offer him or her friendship. You will be used.

Realizing that their parents can't tolerate anger, sadness, or pain, they learn to ignore and deny those feelings, according to Alice Miller, author of The Drama of the Gifted Child. Expressing these emotions means risking Mom's love or making Dad sick. The emotions become enemies, and are numbed or feared.

Unfortunately, however, people don't change by learning more information. The only way to break a bonding pattern is through honest vulnerability.