Quotes about Vulnerability
Courage treats the weak better than fear treats the strong.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
— Alice Hoffman
You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about time or agony or the price they're going to have to pay for just about everything.
— Alice Hoffman
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
— Alice Hoffman
what does love matter in a world where it's so easy to hurt someone?
— Alice Hoffman
I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.
— Alice Hoffman
I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.
— Alice Hoffman
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
— Alice Hoffman
I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.
— Alice Hoffman
April certainly wasn't the first person to have fallen for Vincent, or the first to be wounded by his indifference. She'd been new and daring and exciting, but that had faded as time went on. Now she was just a girl who could easily be hurt.
— Alice Hoffman
What had she thought, that love was a toy, something easy and sweet, just to play with? Real love was dangerous, it got you from inside and held on tight, and if you didn't let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake.
— Alice Hoffman
You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.
— Alice Hoffman