And don’t trust anyone anymore. Did you find yourself alone? Did you lose it on your own? And don’t trust anyone anymore. Did you have another thought? Are you something that you’re not?

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be 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."
CS Lewis - The Four Loves.

ugh.. I love this book..