az- A Time for Everything -by Karl Knausgaard

He had redeeming features, of course he had. Ezekiel could be tender and considerate; Ezekiel could suddenly realize that he'd done something unjust and hurry back to make amends or ask forgiveness, Ezekiel could also melt entirely and stare at someone with a look of innocence, open and vulnerable like a child's. Everyone could do that. (p349)

can they? can everyone do that? stare, open and vulnerable?
I like this passage very much. redeeming ~ endearing: the openness, thereness (dasein is a clearing, like a clearing in the woods, a space -- there), realness of someone who realizes. ~ who can change. come to understand. and, as here, esp shows when: come to understand that he was in the wrong, that the other was right -- and hurry back. "I'm so sorry." - "Look at me. This is what I look like when I believe in you."