Vulnerable Quotes - Page 27

• Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her kiss was innocent, vulnerable, a caress so gentle that it made him her slave between one breath and the next.

  Nalini Singh

  Kissing, Hands, Rising Up

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.1824, Penguin

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• Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lonely, Home, Practice

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• Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.

  Leif Enger

  Hate, Wings, Shadow

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.36, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.

  Antonio Damasio

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Leaving

  Antonio Damasio (2003). “Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn’t turn out half bad either.

  Vicki Pettersson

  Thinking, Childhood, Comforting

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• Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?" "No." "In that case . . . I hope you enjoy disappointment." We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel. "Why did you even bother?" I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable. "I don't know," he whispered.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Disappointment, Angel, Silence

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• And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after we'd both risen and fallen, peaked and plummeted, even after Marcus was physically shrinking from inside me, I couldn't stop clutching, crying, trying. Trying to pull him deeper, deeper, deeper within. Trying to make him more a part of me than I am myself.

  Megan McCafferty

  Lying, Night, Thinking

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.941, Crown

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• Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

  Robert Cormier

  Running, Brother, Heart

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.22, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Understanding, Sound, Gabriel

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• Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.

  Gladys Taber

  Spiritual, Hurt, Sorry

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• And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

  Christine Feehan

  Hurt, Giving, Allowing

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• Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Important, Emotion, Humans

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• To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.

  Ted Dekker

  Children, Mean, Love Is

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• The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fire, Abiding, Poison

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Ada or Ardor”, p.286, Penguin UK

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• She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

  Anna Godbersen

  Desire, Trying, Sound

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• Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Blood, Drawing, Bother

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• Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

  Frank Herbert

  Technology, People, Risk

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.84, Penguin

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• After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Teacher, Years, Voice

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• So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will be magnified a hundred times over, then dissected by the pundits and talking heads. But I’m told it’s necessary; the world needs to see me vulnerable and wounded. I cannot appear not to care or to lack remorse, but that removes a crucial component of my self- defense mechanism and leaves me bleeding for all the world to see. I suppose that’s rather the point.

  Ann Aguirre

  Pain, Self, Talking

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• Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Powerful, Way, Unseen

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• The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

  Anneli Rufus

  Loner, Looks, Fabulous

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• The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

  Melina Marchetta

  Awkward, Red, Faces

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

  Justina Chen

  Teacher, Class, Speak

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• Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Dream, Heart, Broken

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• June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

  Marie Lu

  Beautiful, June, Doe

  Marie Lu (2013). “The Legend Trilogy Collection”, p.192, Penguin

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