Sarah Dessen Quotes

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

Strong people have strong weaknesses.

All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.

We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.

I'm still vulnerable and still weak.

We're all so damned fragile.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.

Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

You might think I'm bulletproof, but I'm not.

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.

She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just—like, a person.