Quotes About Vulnerability

A sober heart conceals, what a drunken mouth reveals, or in your case, a drunken body and lips.

Broken boys are dangerous, but broken men are lovely.

Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

He spoke again as if he hadn't just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.

To have one's helplessness and Ã¢â'¬Â¦ dependency taken advantage of by the person one loves Ã¢â'¬Â¦ soon produces an interlinking of love and hate. Because anger toward the loved person cannot be expressed for fear of losing that person Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Ambivalence, the interlinking of love and hate, remains an important characteristic of later object relationships. Many

If we go out there thinking we're invulnerable, we'll get stupid. Stupid people die, and all too often, they take friends with them.

No one is sexy at three am

In a controversial talk with Jeff the previous March—conspicuously made when Netanyahu was in flight to Washington—the president again warned Israel of its growing isolation in the world and vulnerability to boycotts. "I took it to be a little bit of a veiled threat," Goldberg later told Charlie Rose, interpreting Obama's remark as "nice little Jewish state you got there, I'd hate to see something happen to it.

I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.

A high point in a life lived at sea level, prone to flooding.

When I read these words I saw at once a connection to my own work. Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

At the possibility of truly being seen, something in his chest seemed to snap open like a parachute.

He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable simply by virtue of that long act of evasion. In particular he feared dying in some undignified way, on the jakes or with his face in the porridge.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

He felt the shock of contact. The weight of her against his chest felt like something she had decided to entrust to him. He

We're just animals in a cage. They're just feeding us to keep us alive.

Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect.

that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving.

Sammy felt, that morning, with his ribs bruised and a wan flavor of chlorine at the back of his mouth, that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving.

Cuando le preguntaron qué era la cosa más terrorífica con la que se había encontrando, repuso: Un folio en blanco.

All his life Harry Bosch believed he had a mission. And to carry out that mission he needed to be bulletproof. He needed to build himself and his life so that he was invulnerable, so that nothing and no one could ever get to him. All of that changed on the day he was introduced to the daughter he didn't know he had. In that moment he knew he was both saved and lost. He would be forever connected to the world in the way only a father knew. - Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly