Quotes About Vulnerability

They felt at once profoundly numb and profoundly ecstatic to be young and inflicting optional damage on each other;

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

Love often begins with an outpouring of naked truth, a passionate baring of the soul.

Mayne never told anyone else about his secret attempt to find the remains of his beloved friend, for that would have revealed the other, gentler side to Paddy Mayne, and a hidden broken heart.

To overcome frailty is one definition of courage; to acknowledge it with honesty is another.

and he told a story once after intercourse, to the person who had just politely hoisted him while he hyperventilated in their space until his error had been registered as a small dollop of fluid he extruded from his mistake zone, ...

Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.

Loud people have thin, hollow bones. They can be broken in half and discarded into a pit. They snap as easily as children do, but they will not burn as long in a fire. If a loud person tries to store his voice in a jar, he will not be able to, unless the jar is a mouth worn on the face of someone in his family, which he must prize open with his fingers while shouting deep into the hole there.

One day, supposedly, a Kind Friend could give them what they needed, and clean up after, and possibly even flush the shame from their systems as well. But for the time being they still had to endure the company of other fleshy need machines, human spouters and little bags of weepery.

I hope I can never trust my wife. If I trust her it means I know her. If I know her it means I understand her. If I understand her it means I can control her, and if I can control her it would make her boring and uninteresting… Dear god I hope I can never trust my wife…

It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love.

If You Look Too Deeply Everything Breaks Your Heart.

I was as reassuring as I could be, but I was not in a position to offer guarantees, implicit or otherwise.

I figured out that letting 'the world' hurt me served a few functions extremely well: It provided me with a kind of nurturing I didn't otherwise know how to attract, I couldn't be pinned with total responsibility, and it provided physical pain, a reason to cry that others could understand. So much easier than trying to explain all the accumulated rage and numbness and sadness.

No pienses todavía en esas cosas de remontarte mucho, que eres más pelado que un huevo—le dijo ella—

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The boy was still there, inside the young man's body. It was the same with all of them, all the men she had ever known, in her family or outside it; they reverted to childhood when they were hurt, or sad, or in trouble.

Es un gran paso, un paso irreparable, cuando desvelamos de golpe ante un tercero los repliegues ocultos de una relación íntima; la luz que penetra en el santuario constata y culmina las destrucciones que la oscuridad escondía entre sus sombras: del mismo modo que los cuerpos encerrados en sus tumbas conservan a menudo su forma original hasta que el aire exterior los golpea y los reduce a polvo.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

He that's secure is not safe.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.