Vulnerable Quotes

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For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, Iâ€™d wait forever. â€œReally?â€ he asked in a tone Iâ€™d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam… — Patricia Briggs
I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable. — Francoise Sagan
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware… — Edward Abbey
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas â€“ complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse. — George F. Kennan
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable.… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very… — Ravi Zacharias
I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was… — Rabih Alameddine
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. — Richard Dawkins
Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your… — Brian Weiss
Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie. — Sophie Kinsella
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded… — Andrew Vachss
We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us weâ€™re wrong. Someone we… — David Levithan
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges… — Henri Nouwen
...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to… — Keith Ablow
She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, lonelinessâ€¦ but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable. — Lisa Kleypas
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt. — Leo Buscaglia
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… — Nalini Singh
Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love. — Simone Elkeles
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… — Margaret Thatcher
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… — Leif Enger

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