Amaranta

“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

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein