vulnerable

"To love 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 little hobbies

and 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

". . . love is a danger, it can make you let your guard down

but if you are never broken you will never be made whole."

-j.j. heller