Quotes About Vulnerability

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Let them see my weakness, and let them see me overcome it.

She had a way of pouring everything of herself into what she did. When she fought, she was the blade. When she loved, she was the kiss. In that regard, she was far more Ã¢â'¬Â¦ human than any I have known.

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

That's what trust is , Sazed thought. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.

What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash.

I'm not good with relationships, Shallan." "Is there anyone who actually is? I mean, is there really someone out there who looks at relationships and thinks, 'You know what, I've got this'? Personally, I rather think we're all collectively idiots about it.

Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but...well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.

In the end, I stopped worrying about how strange you seemed. I realized that it didn't really matter if I understood you, because I trusted you.

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

Not that there's anything wrong with humans. I find their frail, emotionally unstable, irrational natures quite endearing.

That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.

I've seen Steelheart bleed

Please," she whispered, sounding more frantic. "Don't leave me down in these chasms alone." He smiled wryly. "Is it really this hard for you to let me win one single argument?" "Yes!

People think I know a lot about women. The truth is, I know how to get them, how to make them laugh, how to make them interested. I don't know how to keep them." He hesitated. "I really want to keep this one.

So yes, I, Adolin Kholin--cousin to the king, heir to the Kholin princedom--have shat myself in my Shardplate. Three times, all on purpose.

We can be strong in the face of kings and priests, my lady," Ashe replied, "but to live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain- leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what it sounded like.

Strength before weakness. He was coming to understand that part of his first oath. He had discovered weakness in himself, but that wasn't something to be ashamed of. Because of that weakness, he could help in ways nobody could.

that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.

Better to trust and be betrayed

In a three-way negotiation, the weakest party actually has the most power - because his allegiance added to either of the other two will choose the eventual winner.

We have grown complacent, timid. I fear that a little aggression, a little strife, might be exactly what we need. Or else…or else we will fall to the first wolf that sneaks past the gates.