“Don't love anything that can be taken away.”

— Ron Rash , book Serena

Source: Serena

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American poet, short story writer and novelist 1953

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella

“Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

“Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.”

James Patterson book Kiss the Girls

Source: Kiss the Girls

“{Fame has] given me a lot of free love -- and that's the best thing fame can afford you. What has it taken away? My privacy.”

Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada

"Billboard Magazine" (11 October 2003)
2007, 2008

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Variant: Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's part of the risk.
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“You can only give away what you have… If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“I'm going away," he said. "And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because…."

"Don't say anything," Fatima interrupted. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (p. 390; closing words of the epilogue)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
But there are much worse games to play.

“Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.”

Apolo Anton Ohno (1982) American short track speed skating competitor

On speedskating
Gordon, Devin (2006-01-23), "APOLO ANTON OHNO: SPEED SKATING". Newsweek. 147 (4):48

“Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.'…'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Incantation

“Don't love anything that can be taken away.”

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