Quotes About Vulnerability

Spying on any subject means one does not trust or its intention to cause the damage. It does not build the best relationship.

The sick and hungry and thirsty, try every possible way everywhere, such ones stay the victim of deceivers easily.

I can't use swords, you bastard! I don't know how to navigate a ship! And I can't cook! Or lie! And I'm pretty sure I can't live without being helped!" -Monkey D. Luffy

By experiencing both victory and defeat, running away and shedding tears, a man will become a man. It's okay to cry, but you have to move on.

You're safer out in the open than you are crouching in the woodshed listening for footsteps and going crazy.

O, sungguh gila aku, kalau aku mencoba menangkap kamu dengan kekuatan. Tubuhmu terlalu kuat. Manusia tak punya banyak kesempatan menang bergulat dengan macan. Tapi untunglah ia lebih pandai. Tidak banyak orang yang membantah kenyataan bahwa macan lebih rendah dari manusia.

My firstborn, Michael, nearly died in his first moments of life, and he was sickly for some weeks after. I recall clearly those anxious days, peering into his incubator. I remember aching to hold him, and yet, superstitiously, I feared that if I made that connection, if I dared to love him more than I already did, he would be snatched from me.

I'm afraid, she thought. When there's someone to cling to, I'll cling. And I'll grow weak again, like roses unable to stand free, once trained to a trellis.

killing a buffalo, then cutting open its belly and crawling inside until the storm had passed. And that's what she'd done with Max, wasn't it? She'd used him to stay warm.

Nope, I am destroyed. A shattered boat of a person. A broken window here, a lousy bell there. An old crappy dyke with half a brain leaking into a book. A drippy excrescence. A schmear.

I didn't stand up to my jailers because I realized how quickly I would have been overpowered.

When you're raw you don't want people studying your reactions, even if you've convinced yourself you're just fine. Maybe especially then.

She wasn't entertainment for him. He didn't need her to make him laugh or bolster his ego or to figure him out so he wouldn't have to. A lot of men who said they were looking for a relationship really wanted a combination sex buddy, therapist, and mirror.

I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.

This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.

My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go. Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?

You can't decide how someone will go about loving you.

Here if you need me. We'll write it back and forth until something major happens. Or one of us dies.

Daria weighed five pounds, four ounces, and was in perfect health. But she was by far the smallest baby in the observation room. And every other baby in there had a full head of hair. The fact that she had no hair drove me crazy. I don't know why. That first night I was so upset that I cried all night long. I was thinking, I did a bad job. I didn't eat properly, I skated too long, and that's why Daria has no hair. I was such a sad, funny little mom, and very far from home.

With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

Perhaps you had an overprotective, needy caretaker who really wanted a child very dependent and never able to leave. Or the caretaker's own sense of strength or self-worth was bolstered by being stronger and so needed.

the fear that now your "fatal flaw" will reveal itself fully as you fail to make the

when highly sensitive patients had experienced a trauma, sexual or otherwise, they had been unusually affected and so developed a neurosis.

The bottom line is that in those first years you either learned to trust the other, and the outer world generally, or you didn't.