Quotes About Vulnerability

there was a man and a woman who came together naked and unashamed, proudly bestowing on each other the beauty of their bodies and thereby finding ineffable joy.

What are you afraid of, Lou?" "Afraid? I'm not afraid of anything," Lou

Exactly," he said, turning again and writing on the board. "Self-betrayal is how we enter the box." "Self-betrayal" 1. An act contrary to what I feel I should do for another is called an act of "self-betrayal." 2. When I betray myself, I begin to see the world in a way that justifies my self-betrayal. 3. When I see the world in a self-justifying way, my view of reality becomes distorted. 4. So — when I betray myself, I enter the box.

Until recently, I lived in a world where lost things could always be replaced. But it has been made overwhelmingly clear to me now that anything you think is yours by right can vanish, and what you can do about that is nothing at all.

I had traveled across Asia for six months with a backpack when I was twenty-two. My mood on those exotic days in Katmandu and Da Nang alternated between euphoria and lonely terror. I had traveler's checks that I kept with my passport in a little sack that I wore under my T-shirt at all times, afraid that someone would snatch it and then I would be completely fucked.

A real editor isn't just someone you work with; he's your guide. He sees your brain doing its thing and learns its weaknesses and abilities, and if he's really good, he figures out what you need to hear to compensate for the former and accentuate the latter. He is the person you trust with the most intimate thing you have, your own voice.

Life, so plodding and seemingly circumscribed, was labile, fragile.

My competent self is doing the talking; my bewildered self is being addressed.

But the danger that we invite into our lives can come in the most unthreatening shape, the

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Trusting people, the kind who are not on their guard and do not take precautions, because it is always easy to get away with wronging them.

Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

I'm Michael," said Michael, just as his nose started to bleed again.

To be loved without a shred of any reserve is a necessity for me.

Ob?utek sramu potrebuje druge ljudi.

Mogo?e je imela prav, mogo?e se mu je res gnusila. Ampak gnus ni razlog za lo?itev, gnus je obenem najvišja stopnja intimnosti. Kon?na to?ka intimnosti. V kar se intimnost neizogibno razvije. Doma?nost gnusa, njegova nespremenljivost, poželenje, ki jo izzove. Hrepenenje, da bi se ti drugi še zadnji? lahko zagnusil. In da bi se pri tem vedno malo gnusil tudi samemu sebi.

Vind je me niet mooi?' 'Heel mooi. Mooi zoals mensen mooi zijn die niet lang meer te leven hebben.

there are a million things we survive every day without recognizing we were ever at risk. Then we have a close call, and we become acutely aware of what that fraction of an inch or that split second means.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

any man, in the right circumstances, could be dehumanized by panic.

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

The crisis was over. What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Both times he had won through, but he knew well enough that any man, in the right circumstances, could be dehumanized by panic.