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Quotes About Vulnerability

We may be immune to typhoid, tetanus, chickenpox, diphtheria, but never memory. There is no inoculation against that.
~ Sebastian Barry
We are not lovers rushing to embrace but there is a sense of terrifying union none the less, as if courage yearns to join with courage.
~ Sebastian Barry
I started to cry, not like a child, but like the old woman I am, slow, slight tears that no one sees, no one dries.
~ Sebastian Barry
Slowly he edges nearer. He reaches out a hand, so openly and plainly that I believe I am going to expire. The held in breath of the audience is not let out again. Half a minute passes. It is unlikely any of them could of holded their breath like this underwater. They have found new size in their lungs. Down down we go under them waters of desire.
~ Sebastian Barry
may be immune to typhoid, tetanus, chickenpox, diphtheria, but never memory. There is no inoculation against that.
~ Sebastian Barry
What the deer feels in the second she sees the hunter with his gun I seemed to feel for long stretches of hours and days. I was poised for flight like any creature might be but where I was to flee I didn't know.
~ Sebastian Barry
One moment, fine enough, sorrowing, but fine, sort of. The next, a big bulge of grief in my throat, so that if I had to speak in that moment my voice would be high and squeaky.
~ Sebastian Barry
Elle était si proche de lui qu'il distinguait les pores de sa peau. Contrairement à lui, elle attachait une grande importance à son hygiène corporelle. Le dernier peeling de Martin remontait à un an, quand deux Solvènes l'avaient traîné sur l'asphalte d'une aire d'autoroute en lui plaquant la figure contre le sol.
~ Sebastian Fitzek
How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?
~ Sebastian Junger
Only hardness or only softness creates an inability to deal effectively with the fluctuations of life.
~ Seikichi Toguchi
Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.
~ Selena Gomez
There was no way to lead up to this gently. With a surge of assertiveness driven by desire as well as a couple of cosmopolitans, she took both his hands in hers and mustered up her confidence. "I want you to lick me cross-eyed." "You want me to what?" "Okay, that sounded better inside my head." She squeezed his hands. "I want sex. Great sex. Alex, let's do it.
~ Selena Robins
A Heart dies when it is not able to share its "Feelings" But A Heart kills it self when another Heart does not understand its "Fellings
~ Self
Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
All cruelty springs from weakness.
~ Seneca
No one can wear a mask for very long.
~ Seneca
Because she didn't love herself. She feared rejection because she was so unlike anyone she'd ever known. She was so full of fear that she sequestered herself away.
~ Serena Valentino
Tulip hated this feeling. The last time she had felt this way, she had been utterly humiliated and deeply hurt. She couldn't imagine allowing herself to be charmed by another handsome man only to be heartbroken again. But she was different now, wasn't she? Stronger, bolder, and indeed more worldly.
~ Serena Valentino
I think it was because no one loved her." "Why?" asked the child. "Because she didn't love herself. She feared rejection because she was so unlike anyone she'd ever known. She was so full of fear that she sequestered herself away.
~ Serena Valentino
If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
MÅ'ody i zdrowy m??czyzna ma caÅ'y wachlarz mo?liwych przebudzeÅ". Najprzyjemniejsze, gdy caÅ'ujÄ… ciÄ™ w ucho i mówiÄ…: "Kochanie… dziÄ™kujÄ™, to byÅ'a niezapomniana noc…". Co ciekawe, mo?e to by? równie? wariant najstraszniejszy, tylko wtedy czuÅ'y gÅ'os jest gÅ'osem mÄ™skim i ma kaukaski akcent.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko