Quotes About Vulnerability

The Nine lived and worked on top of one another. Between changing backstage, the house, and the romances, they had seen each other in every stage of undress. There was nothing strange about having visitors when you were in the bath.

She went from feeling completely connected to him and swimming in the warm waters of happy hormones, to a cold, frightened feeling.

To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and frustration - all the emotions that are an ordinary part of their lives and that they can perceive only as as ungovernable and dangerous forces. To master these forces, children turn to fantasy: that imagined world where disturbing emotional situations are solved to their satisfaction.

We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway. To let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel. While I am here.

Beware how you take hope from another human being.

He kissed her, because fuck it, he was probably about to die.

We attempt to conceal ourselves, Emily, but the truth is we do not entirely want to be concealed. We want to be found.

Tell me what you think love is! I seriously want to know! Okay, Eliot said. It's defining yourself through the eyes of another. It's coming to know a human being on a level so intimate that you lose any meaningful distinction between you, and you carry the knowledge that you are insufficient without her every day for twenty years, until she drives an animal transport at you, and you shoot her. It's that.

After a while, he sat. She leaned her head on his shoulder. She felt very close to him. "I promise not to turn you into my thought slave," she said, and felt him smile a little. But she had thought about it.

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

I left off loving you when I found that you loved me. There is the premiss. Very well! Is it likely that I shall begin to love you again because you can't leave off loving me?

Surrounded both by plain women of flesh and blood and by beauteous women on pasteboard, the undergraduate is the easiest victim of living loveliness—is as a fire ever well and truly laid, amenable to a spark.

Nothing is more thrilling, thought he, than to be treated as a cully by the person you hold in the hollow of your hand.

No sé si los grandes hombres son productos de tiempos difíciles, pero sé que pueden ser sus víctimas.

You can't blame the people in Greenloop for having their cupboards bare. The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for comfort.

You can't blame the people in Greenloop for having their cupboards bare. The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for c

Why do I go there? Where's my, what do you call it, "ego-defense mechanism"?

It's great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl

But is it so wrong to want to be watched over? When you're feeling small and scared—which, let's be honest, is pretty much how I feel all the time—isn't it okay, just for a moment, to want someone, something bigger than you to have all the answers, to have everything under control?

It's great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl.

Isn't that all we are? Just a brain kept alive by a complex and vulnerable machine we call the body? The

People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?