Quotes About Vulnerability

When she met my father she was still really good at being quiet. When she met him she realized how she had been collecting silence in a slender, delicate glass jar behind her ribcage. The bottle was not corked and so she always had to be very careful not to spill it.

Motherhood makes you a dealer in death. No one tells you this beforehand. You will become obsessed with all the ways a person can go because while it might be easy to deal with the fact that you will one day die, it's not at all easy—totally unacceptable—to deal with the fact that one day your child will die. Do

Perfection scribbled out or the imperfection that makes you, me, anyone perfect and complete because it includes the truth of our mortality. Get

I've learned to face my demons, I'm just learning that not everyone can handle them.

Fool Me Twice I took a risk by reinvesting myself I took an even bigger one when I began to care But I tightened the knot of the noose around my neck When I began to Love you again You kicked the chair out from under me So I didn't even have to jump

I crave broken men. When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for my lack of strength by putting people back together? I am tired. I want someone to save me - build an intricate web and place it beneath me in case I fall.

When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for my lack of strength by putting people back together?

This hurts more than anything else because I cannot stop it.

I am so close to the edge that I could vomit, so close that it would be easy to jump.

I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? From time to time. There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.

For society indeed of all sorts, except of course that of a few intimate friends, he had an unconquerable aversion. "I always did hate those people," he said, "and they always have hated and always will hate me. I am an Ihsmael by instinct as much as by accident of circumstances, but if I keep out of society I shall be less vulnerable than Ishmaels generally are. The moment a man goes into society, he becomes vulnerable all round.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.

You give me so much pleasure, why should I ever want to hurt you?

There is so much you don't see. You walk around in a world with holes in it; you stumble into them; and get hurt.

You got dandruff in your crotch?" "That's not dandruff. I was with a woman. Just before I met you. Only I didn't get a chance to wash." "Was she sick?" "Naw. Didn't you ever fuck a woman?

She said something unprintable. When she finished there were tears starting on her lower lids. "What I want to say, what I want to express I just…"Again she shook her head. "I can't say it." "If you want to keep growing as a poet, you'll have to.

We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage.

took her in my arms and let her cry, and I was crying too. After she'd quieted some, I asked for her husband's number, and after I did the workup for rape, I called him. He'd been worried stiff, and was glad she was not dead. He couldn't know, yet, that part of her had died.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.