Quotes About Vulnerability

She likes to lay her face against the upper reaches of his arm, that dark brown river, and to wake submerged within it, against the pulse of an unseen vein in his flesh beside her. The vein she would have to locate and insert a saline solution into if he were dying.

parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.

You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love—seemingly the most natural of acts.

When we learn to hear the unspoken feelings beneath someone's anger or impatience, we discover the power to release the bitterness that keeps people apart. With a little effort, we can hear the hurt behind expressions of hostility, the resentment behind avoidance, and the vulnerability that makes people afraid to speak or truly listen.

Unfortunately the interview she had lined up with a homeless girl cannot now be done, as the girl killed herself yesterday. She was the third suicide in a week at this hostel. Apparently when one goes, there is often a 'domino' effect.

Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.

This was huge for me. I saw that if I can name and admit a feeling, confess it to someone, it would let go. A little older and wiser, now I can do this for myself.

La falta de una cultura de comida estable nos hace muy vulnerables a las lisonjas de los ingenieros alimentarios y los estrategas del marketing, para quienes el dilema del omnívoro no es tanto un dilema como una oportunidad. La industria alimentaria está muy interesada en exacerbar nuestra ansiedad ante lo que debemos o no comer, para así poder aliviarla después con nuevos productos.

Being sincere and true to yourself is a scary thing but, ultimately, a rewarding one.

There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

It's hard to talk about yourself onstage and be sincere about it.

As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.

Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all, that's all part of how I express my identity.

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.

I don't know why, but I'm more intimidated by sharing my singing than just performing as an actress.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.

When you see someone every single day, at 5:30 A.M. in the morning, you have to break down all barriers, you become very close.

How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I was scared. I mean, it was scary. But part of that's because it was so personal and real to me.

The whole time I was in Rio, I probably cried every single night.