Quotes About Vulnerability

being defenseless didn't preclude attack.

I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot." "I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you." "I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.

Trapped him the gray people    as the great are brought down by the weak    when they are many As the hawk is mobbed by the roller birds    as the great sea eagle is brought down by gulls

He cried in Toy Story 3, bawled. It was sweet and I liked him like that.

Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.

I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced--the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.

Archie asked if I'd told my parents about him, and I said I hadn't. How much longer are you going to keep me in the closet? he said. It's dark in here. And I keep stepping on your shoes.

In a cab home from a jazz club, he said, "You act like I just want to sleep with you." He said, "I want to everything with you.

There are things that two people say in the middle of the night That don't make sense to a third at breakfast.

As ever, Sue was on the phone, and I could tell by her posture - she was half laying on the desk - that she was crying. I knew this was no distress but joy: She always cried when her boyfriend admitted that he was a complete idiot.

Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

It doesn't work like that, she said, and I was hoping she would tell me how it did work. Maybe she could see that, because she went on. Sometimes you're loved because of your weaknesses, she said. What you can't do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and grabbed his arm. Jack. Yes? I. . . she faltered. She knew what she wanted to tell him, but she couldn't bring herself to say the words. It turned out she didn't have to. Jack put a hand to his heart and nodded. I feel the same way about you.

It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.

It is better to trust and face betrayal than to remain skeptical of everything and everybody. Your open heart is a gift.

She was wrong. She was not strong. Her heart was breaking, she could feel it... -Sky

They each had secrets they were keeping from the other; secrets they were keeping out of love.

Now that she decided she knew exactly what she wanted –him- she couldn't wait to break the news. And if he didn't want her, she could live with that – what she wouldn't be able to live with was if she never told him.

But as they say, love is blind.

Then he said that he might call child services if Mom or Dad couldn't keep watch over me. The specific words he used were child endangerment.

Love does not make you weak; it is the absence of it that does.

I'm terrified. But for the first time in many months, I don't want to throw up. I don't want to cut myself. I just want to be. I just want to exist in the moment, the unbearable moment, because I can finally accept who I am. I can be proud of what I created.

Maybe that was why it was almost always the underclasses, the women, the people of color, the gay people, the ones who were already stigmatized as being vulnerable, availble, trapped by the body, who took the risk of the wire.