Orson Scott Card Quotes on Vulnerability

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  1. I wish I had died before seeing him, he will surely undo me before he's through

  2. Miro expected him to be wise. He had not expected him to be so intrusive, so dangerous. Yes, he was wise, all right, he kept seeing past pretense, kept saying or doing outrageous things that were, when you thought about it, exactly right. It was as if he was so familiar with the human mind that he could see, right on your face, the desires so deep, the truths so well-disguised that you didn't even know yourself that you had them in you

  3. Are you ready to reveal yourself to the rest of humanity? I've always been ready. The question is, are they ready to know me?

  4. I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate than even a kiss. Maybe. But not as fun.

  5. It was as if Graff had read his heart and found the lie that would penetrate most deeply into his soul and told it to him.

  6. You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.

  7. I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.

  8. In all his life, [he] had never spoken with such brutal frankness about his own fear; he had never felt so exposed and vulnerable in front of anyone.

  9. Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?

  10. Don't hurt each other any more, children How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that

  11. That was the most terrible thing that a woman could to a decent man: look vulnerable and ask him for mercy. If he refused her he'd be denying all his instincts as a provider and protector

  12. Embarrassing as it had been to break down like that in front of [her], he knew that it had been a good thing. A wall inside himself had been broken

  13. He looked away to hide his face from her. By habit, really, his old habit of hiding his emotions. There was nothing she hadn't seen of his emotions by now. No weakness she didn't already know

  14. She was more fragile than anyone expected. Her outer toughness was a protective device.

  15. He shuddered at his own fragility. He had thought he was a stronger man than that

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