Sophie Kinsella Quotes

All are / naked, none is safe.

When are you at your most defenseless?

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

… you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out..

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

I never think that walls can protect you.

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

He that's secure is not safe.

Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.