"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
This is a book that I am working on. To understand it fully, you need to start at the beginning. Between each chapter there is an interlude. I would suggest that you read these posts in order.
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This Too Shall Pass
When some great sorrow, like a mighty river, Flows through your life with peace-destroying power And dearest things are swept from sight for...
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"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 o...
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