Quotes About Vulnerability

Love leaves scars.

Reality is thin ice, but most people skate on it their whole lives and never fall through until the very end. We did fall through, but we helped each other out. We're still helping each other.

Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

We never know. Any day could be the day we go down, and we never know.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.

I don't like people. They fuck me up

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

We're only as sick as our secrets.

He was a coward at heart, you see, although I never said the word out loud to him —not then and not ever. Doing that's about the most dangerous thing a person can do, I think, because a coward is more afraid of being discovered than he is of anything else, even dying.

The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary

Any system created by the mind of man can be hacked by the mind of man.

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

Sometimes it takes heart to write about a thing, doesn't it? To let that thing out of the room way in the back of your mind and put it up there on the screen.

I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog.

Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm. And if I should kiss you in the dark, it's no big deal; it's only because you are my love.

When there is love, scars are as pretty as dimples.

The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.