Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory

by Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who’s a friend.”

the average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul—desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

would never change because they’d been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion:

But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get.