Quotes About Vulnerability

if you must be pitiable, sue for aid and succor, you will put yourself always, inevitably, in the hands of these angry spirits. Blasting you with their "truth.

She just has fixed herself on me to kill me. She can do it at long distance. One of these days I'll be struck down by suffocation or apoplexy because of her.

Moses loved his relatives quite openly and even helplessly . . . It was childish of him; he knew that. He could only sigh at himself, that he should be so undeveloped on that significant side of his nature.

mangoes in our breasts, which give us away. And it isn't only that I'm scared of all those wives, but there'll be nobody to talk to any more. I've gotten to that age where I need human voices and intelligence. That's all that's left. Kindness and love.

U svakoj zajednici postoji vrsta ljudi koja je neobi?no opasna za druge ?lanove zajednice. Ne mislim na kriminalce. Za njih imamo kaznene sankcije. Mislim na vo?e. Najopasniji ljudi bez iznimke idu za vlaš?u. Dok pozitivnom gra?aninu uskipljuje srce u salonima indignacije. Gospodine uredni?e, za nas je neizbježno da budemo roblje onima koji posjeduju mo? da nas unište.

Wilhelm thought, Why does it have to be me and my life that's discussed, and not him and his life? He would never allow it. But I am an idiot. I have no reserve. To me it can be done. I talk. I must ask for it. Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice. Why do I allow it?

I was no longer surprised to find unlocked doors in the city. Maybe at some subconscious level we don't believe we need protection from our own species.

Put yourself in potentially embarrassing situations on a regular basis just to maintain practice. If you get embarrassed as planned, watch how one year later you are still alive.

Can't wait to sit down for a while. This pretending to be brave and strong is getting old.

people never gave away their hearts, however willing or desperate or lonely they were. Hearts always had to be taken. By force or trickery. Love was murder, the infliction of death by cardiac theft, and the alternative was even worse.

Never have them, Reg. I swear, you're never free. You LOVE them too much. It's like a vital organ walked out of your body and is out there waving hi to people and you fear for it all day, EVERY day, because if something happened to it...

Democracy and the rule of law are much more fragile than most Americans realize.

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.

It's not the way Zane looks, David, she said, her voice trembling with anger. It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was. It's just programming! No. It's because I love him.

You can't blame a match for a house made of straw

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was? Fragile? Volger looked about. I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

but loving had left her skinless.

Trato a este pobre corazón como a un niño enfermo; le concedo cuanto me pide. No se lo cuentes a nadie, que no faltaría quien me lo censurase.

Nas?l da çocuktur insan! Bir bak?? için nedir bu açgözlülük! Nas?l da çocuktur insan!

zavall? türden tutkulard?r bunlar, ve bunlar? örtmeye hiç mi hiç gerek duyulmuyor. ..

Nicht die große, seltne Not der Welt, diese Fluten, die eure Dörfer wegspülen, diese Erdbeben, die eure Städte verschlingen, rühren mich; mir untergräbt das Herz die verzehrende Kraft, die in dem All der Natur verborgen liegt; die nichts gebildet hat, das nicht seinen Nachbar, nicht sich selbst zerstörte. Und so taumle ich beängstigt. Himmel und Erde und ihre webenden Kräfte um mich her: ich sehe nichts als ein ewig verschlingendes, ewig wiederkäuendes Ungeheuer.

Por qué me ocultas tu corazón?