Quotes About Vulnerability

They're scared of you." Zahel's voice, drifting again above the crowd. "Do you see it in them? Show them why.

You're still human," Shallan said, reaching across, putting her hand on Navani's knee. "We can't all be emotionless chunks of rock like Jasnah." Navani smiled. "She sometimes had the empathy of a corpse, didn't she?

There was safety in being the one everyone else looked to. I felt everything, but I didn't want anyone to know it.

I accept that there will be those I cannot protect.

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.

Emotion. It is what defines men—though ironically you are poor vessels for it. It fills you up and breaks you, unless you find someone to share the burden.

You want too much of me" he snapped at her as he reached the other side of the chasm. "I'm not some glorious knight of ancient days. I'm a broken man. Do you hear me Syl? I'm broken ." She zipped up to him and whispered "That's what they all were, silly.

Dalinar tried to stand, straight-backed and at atention, beneath the weight of it all. Unfortunately, he knew too well that if you locked your knees and stood too straight, you risked fainting. Why was it that trying to stand tall should make you so much more likely to fall?

How can someone be abstractly defenseless?

If stone met a man, stone might win--but if stone met humanity, then no force could preserve it.

I bet the first time you had emotions, you babbled a lot and soiled your clothing.

As there was nothing left for Veil to protect Shallan from feeling, she began to fade. But as she faded, one last question surfaced: Did I do well?

Si dejas que alguien se te acerque, solo te lastimara mas cuando te traicione.

I'm not strong enough, I've never been strong enough. You know better than I what your limits are, Wit said. It's not such a terrible thing, to be too weak. Makes us need one another.

I complain because I can be unguarded with you.

He flopped down onto the deck beside her chair, rolling over and looking up. "Yeah, maybe. But it's nice to make people laugh at you for something you do, and not something you can't control. You know?

If you find a building without rats, son, then you know that something more dangerous scared them away.

If there is one thing I can guarantee you about humankind, Last Listener, it is this: Provide them with a sword, and they will find a way to impale themselves upon it.

She didn't open up to me until I gave her my honest face." "Your honest face doesn't have to be that of a killer, Dalinar." Dalinar and Navani

But Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Steris!" he said. "You'll end up humiliating yourself." She closed her eyes. "Dear Lord Waxillium. Earlier, you spoke of the power of not caring about what others thought of you. Do you remember?" "Yes." "Well, you see," she said, opening her eyes and smiling, "I'm trying to practice that skill." She proceeded to vomit all over the table. *

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.

Need. That word had strange effects on men. Some ran when you used it. Others grew nervous.

Pocos hombres tienen la sabiduría suficiente para darse cuenta cuando necesitan ayuda. Menos todavía tienen la fuerza suficiente para ir a buscarla.

a bank was a target. Building a place like this, then stuffing it full of cash, was like climbing atop a hill and daring anyone who approached to try to knock you off.