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Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 29 of 73
“I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.”
“I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.”
“I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.”
“IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.”
“You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to.”
“I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.”
“forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums”
“A burnt child loves the fire.”
“And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when really she's just floundering like the rest of us. Lindsay, who will bite at you if you even look in her direction the wrong way, like on of those tiny attack dogs that are always barking and snapping in the air before they're jerked backward on the chains that keep them in one place.”
“will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty”
“Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.”
“I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.”
“I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.”
“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”
“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
“Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”
“People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.”
“We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.”
“June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”