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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.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin