Quote:
Originally Posted by TheByzantine
"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
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When I was a teenager, the Simon and Garfunkel song, "I am a rock" was kind of my theme song-- or at least one of them. This quote epitomizes why it was so attractive.... I have mostly gotten over this particular malady, but I can't say I'm much in the mood to go out and fall in love again.
(Epitomizes why, with the exception of the irredeemable part... I would never have admitted that.)