Quotes About Vulnerability

If you put it up, I'll just take it down again." His voice lowered to a throaty hum, "And you know what happens when I take your hair down.

That was the trouble with wild roses - they grew under a man's defenses when he wasn't watching.

Until that moment, he hadn't been sure he would prevail. Any woman brave enough to thrust a blade at him was unpredictable at best, and dangerous at worst.

You won't try to kiss me again?" "Given your method for handling that problem? No. I don't particularly like pain.

I've never done this with a woman like you before. Never wanted to. I only know... I don't want it to end.

He laid her hand on his jutting cock. "This beast is what I want to put inside you, princess. It will hurt you, I fear, and you'll never be the same." She ran a finger along the length of him, then smiled softly. "I should hope not. How good can a seduction be if one ends up the same afterward?

Every person, young or old, risks the possibility of their life not turning out as planned. Especially when it comes to marriage. They might find they aren't suited for marriage after all. Or their spouses might die of an early illness. Taking a risk on another person is what marriage is all about.

I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.

What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way?

Sabrina Ward Harrison

MUCKY drawing I AM FeeLing completely mucky today too. everyone at school seems so much tougher + pulled together and not so emotionally involved. I get so mad at MYSELF FOR 'caring so deeply' AND 'MAINTAINING' all this stuff in me that FEELS SO PATHectic. I want to put my tHINKing in HYBernation FOR A WHile.

The more you try to be special, the more you get hurt. Just be, just melt and become part of the wind around you, the earth around you, become a part of everything. You're here only for a while. At least when you're in a place like this, where nobody is going to trample on you, let your defenses down. Let it be. Forget your comforts, your sensibilities, your likes and dislikes. Leave all that nonsense and be with me.

The impending possibility that it will fall apart one day is torture—often worse than the actual disaster.

a willingness to respond freely and openly.

If you have to be in love, you should not be. The English expression "falling in love" is very significant. You don't climb in love, you don't stand in love, you don't fly in love, you fall in love. Something of you should fall or melt away to accommodate the other. There is a distinction between a transaction and a love affair. A love affair need not be with any particular person; you could be having a great love affair with life itself.

Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. she was the one whose words hurt him.

Being cruel because you could only revealed your weakness. Compassion was always stronger.

Now roll onto your side so we can spoon." "Oh, God. Not snuggling!" "Get used to it," said Adam as he pushed me onto my side and pressed his rock-hard body against mine. He wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer. "Relax," he said, his voice sleepy. "You're not lying on a bed of scorpions.

I clung to my tears, refusing to give them to him.

C'est drôlement dangereux de s'attacher à quelqu'un. C'est incroyable ce que ça peut faire mal. Rien que la peur de perdre l'autre est douloureuse.

Faut pas s'attacher aux autres, c'est trop risqué.

laisser entrer quelqu'un dans sa vie, c'est abattre les murs qu'on a construits pour se protéger, pas attendre que l'autre les enfonce !

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died.