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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look.
Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years.
The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it. ”
― The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years.
The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it. ”
― The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
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