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Sensitivity Quotes


"Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk."


"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."


"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"


"Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands."


"I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music."


"It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl."


"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."
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