Will Alvey

“Oh, child. When will you stop worrying and simply let yourself be loved?” Vin shook her head. “It’s not that easy.” “Few things are. Yet I tell you this, Lady Vin. Love must be allowed to flow both ways—if it does not, then it is not truly love, I think. It is something else. Infatuation, perhaps? In any case, there are some of us who are far too quick to make martyrs of ourselves. We stand at the side, watching, thinking that we do the right thing by inaction. We fear pain—our own or that of another.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension