Quotes About Vulnerability

His hand skimmed softly over her stomach, then he said, "I think I'm a little overdressed, don't you?" Kate's eyes widened as he left the bed and stripped off the rest of his clothing. His body was perfection, his chest finely muscled, his arms and legs powerful, and his— "Oh, my God," she gasped. He grinned. "I'll take that as a compliment." -Anthony & Kate

For one split moment, he had the bizarre thought that she somehow knew everything about him, every last detail from the moment of his birth to his certainty of his own death. It seemed, in that second, with her face tipped up toward his and her lips slightly parted, that she, more than anyone else who would ever walk this earth, truly knew him. It was thrilling. But more than that, it was terrifying.

Men, she thought with disgust, were interested only in those women who terrified them.

he was falling in love with her, but he had never been a man to speak of his feelings, and the words choked in his throat. So he kissed her one last time, truly and deeply, hoping she recognized it for what it was, an offering of his very soul. Yours, he thought. I am yours.

hated that she'd allowed him to make her feel small.

I don't wish to cry off," she said, even though she'd already shaken her head. Some things needed to be said aloud. "Then you will have to help him," Violet said. "With whatever it is that troubles him, it will be up to you to help him.

She wanted to understand why she was so afraid of the storms, but prying into one's deepest fears was almost as terrifying as the fear itself.

Tiene miedo. Es mucho mas fácil cerrarse a las personas que amarlas. Si uno se rodea el corazón con un sólido muro, nadie puede acercarse lo bastante para romperlo. ¿No le parece?

But when they were laughing together, just the two of them poking fun at some silly society rule, his eyes changed. They grew softer, gentler, more at ease. In her more fanciful moments, she almost thought they looked as if they were melting.

He was asleep, and probably still more than a little bit drunk, and she could do whatever she wanted with him.

It amazed her how easily he could infuriate her. She loved desperately—she'd long since given up lying to herself about that—and yet he could make her entire body shake with anger with one little quip.

And it didn't matter if she saw his deepest fears, because he knew she'd love him no matter what. It was a sublimely freeing feeling.

He halted his words, sinking into a chair, trying very hard to get past the fact that he was perilously close to tears. Right here, in John's study, with this damnable little man who didn't seem to understand that a man had died, not just an earl, but a man, Michael wanted to cry. And he would, he suspected. As soon as Lord Winston left, and Michael could lock the door and make sure that no one could see him, he would probably bury his face in his hands and cry.

it was probably part of the reason she was feeling so miserable. She'd placed her fate and her happiness in the hands of another, and she hated it.

I'm definitely not a fearless individual.

I don't want to break someone's heart, but you can't control that. A broken heart happens; that's inevitable.

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

The boy taught from infancy to be tough is emotionally doomed.

There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

I'm not as careful as I look, which is why I choose not to do social media. It's really because I don't trust myself. I'm also very easily influenced by my feelings and will impulsively act on my emotions, which is another reason why I don't do social media.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.