Quotes About Vulnerability

I'm laughing, I apologized, at the situation, at you, who've wanted to kill Nino forever, and at me, who if he showed up now would say to you: Yes, kill him. I'm laughing out of despair, because I've never been so offended, because I feel humiliated in a way that I don't know if you can imagine, because at this moment I'm so ill that I think I'm fainting.

All the more reason, then, to wonder why I had confessed what was so much my own to strangers, people very different from me, who would therefore never be able to understand my reasons, and who surely, at that moment, were speaking ill of me. I couldn't bear it, I couldn't forgive myself, I felt I had been flushed out.

Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

I cried and cried, as if I had carelessly lost somewhere the most promising part of myself.

And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I'm safe?

talvez, diante do abandono, sejamos todos iguais; talvez nem mesmo uma cabeça muito disciplinada consiga suportar a descoberta de não ser amada.

Maybe I should erase Lila from myself like a drawing from the blackboard, I thought, for, I think, the first time. I felt fragile, exposed, I couldn't spend my time following her or discovering that she was following me, either way feeling diminished. I immediately went to find her.

Temevo che le accadessero cose, belle o brutte, senza che io fossi presente. Era un timore vecchio, un timore che non mi era mai passato: la paura che, perdendomi pezzi della sua vita, perdesse intensita' e centralita' la mia.

She became transparent skin over bones, her eyes drowning in violet wells, her hands damp spider webs.

Ci salutammo alla funicolare e da allora non l'ho più rivisto. Non osai fare domande su Roberto, non chiesi se Vittoria gli aveva parlato di me, se gli aveva raccontato i fatti di casa mia. Dissi solo, vergognandomi: "Mi sento brutta, di cattivo carattere, e tuttavia vorrei essere amata". Ma lo dissi tardi, in un soffio, quando lui già mi dava le spalle.

Toda relação intensa entre seres humanos é cheia de armadilhas e, caso se queira que dure, é preciso aprender a desviar-se delas.

Los buenos sentimientos son frágiles, conmigo el amor no resiste. No resiste el amor por un hombre, ni siquiera resiste el amor por los hijos, no tarda en agujerearse.

I would attach those of my revenge. I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

Cuántas palabras permanecen sin pronunciar incluso en una pareja que se ama, y qué elevado es el riesgo de que otros la destruyan pronunciándolas.

I felt like a drop of rain in a spiderweb, and I was careful not to slide down. We

Forse, di fronte all'abbandono, siamo tutti uguali; forse nemmeno una testa molto ordinata può reggere alla scoperta di non essere amata.

Ogni rapporto intenso tra esseri umani è pieno di tagliole e se si vuole che duri bisogna imparare a schivarle. Lo

It was as if she wanted to take the power away even from the realistic possibility of violent death by reducing it to words, to a form that could be controlled.

I buoni sentimenti sono fragili, con me l'amore non resiste. Non resiste l'amore per un uomo, non resiste nemmeno l'amore per i figli, presto si buca. Guardi nel foro e vedi la nebulosa delle buone intenzioni confondersi con quella delle cattive. [...] Voler bene scorre insieme al voler male, e io non riesco, non riesco a condensarmi intorno a nessuna buona volontà.

If she kept him next to her she was afraid of breaking him, if she pushed him too far away she was afraid of losing him.

tenía miedo de que me acusaran de ser como era de hecho, distraída y ausente, concentrada en mí misma.

Ich würde immer Angst haben: Angst davor, einen falschen Satz zu sagen, einen übertriebenen Ton anzuschlagen, unpassend gekleidet zu sein, kleinliche Gefühle zu offenbaren, keine interessanten Gedanken zu haben.

tal vez, frente al abandono seamos todos iguales; tal vez ni siquiera una cabeza bien ordenada puede aguantar al descubrir que no es amada.

Io sono l'otto di spada, io sono la vespa che punge, io sono la serpe scura. lo sono l'animale invulnerabile che attraversa il fuoco e non si brucia.