“To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung
and possibly
broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact,
you must give
your heart to
no one,
not even to 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.”
-C.S. Lewis
