Quotes About Vulnerability

Intimacy came faster when a person wore their pain and poor luck for all to see.

Sometimes trust felt like the worst gift in the world.

Do you think it's easier to be mad at people you trust?" her mom asked very softly. "Why is that?" "Because you trust that they'll love you anyway.

The gap between what we say and what we feel is so big and dark that sometimes I think I'll fall into it and just keep falling

That was her life's challenge. Not to shy away from the pain. Not to deny it, but rather to take it on. Give it a voice if it needed one. Accept that it had a right to be.

I love you. I love him...I think you would love each other. But that math has failed me before.

Looking back, I was becoming extremely hard. You couldn't afford to have somebody care about you because you weren't really allowed to care about yourself. I didn't want people feeling sorry for me. I just wanted to survive. I

My dad was giving me a kind of pep talk and my mom had a smile on her face, but she just looked like she wanted to cry. She's looking at this little girl holding a stuffed animal on her way to deliver a baby. I can't even begin to imagine.

We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

Everyone says little kids don't break, but they do. Inside. I broke when my father walked out on us.

We don't want to be naked if … you know," Carolyn added. "If the monster comes?" Mary Anne asked. The girls blushed.

Go away! Get out! Don't kill me! I've got a kitten at home. He needs me. Oh, yeah. I've also got a gun.

Mike and I ran through everything we thought Courtenay should know about being on her own in the big, bad world: who to trust, who not to trust, what to do if somebody wanted to give her candy, touch her, take her for a ride. And that was one of the big problems between Leigh and me. Leigh was incensed that I had started the Lost Game. She thought it would scare Courtenay and all Leigh wanted to do was protect her.

I am never falling in love again! It hurts too much." ? The Baby-Sitters Little Sister #119: Karen's Mistake

I am never falling in love again! It hurts too much.

Las mentiras de los débiles nos vuelven insensibles al sufrimiento de los demás.

I still find that a willingness to be honest—especially about things that one might be expected to conceal—often leads to much more gratifying exchanges with other human beings.

Many lives are almost scandal-proof. Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.

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Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.

I was chilled by the promise of protection that had drawn a child out of a basement and onto an exposed Sarajevan playground.

When I visited the ambassador from Grenada, she summed up the dynamic with a phrase I had heard often, 'If America sneezes, people in my country catch a cold' (p. 402).

I shut my eyes and see a pocket of darkness. I want to fold myself flat and crisp, slip inside of it like a sheet of paper into an envelope.

I hang out inseparably with someone for a few days. We devour each other, tell all our stories, and then move on. Things here are not stable.