"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