Rita

“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

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King