"To love at all 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 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.”

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

C.S. Lewis