“And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.”

“Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt… it's all part of being in love.”

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.”

Dorothy Koomson (1971) British writer

“I want to talk about love. Loving someone…I mean really loving someone…means you are willing to admit that the person you love is not what you first fell in love with, not the image you first had; and you must be able to like them still for being as close to that image as they are, and avoid disliking them for being so far away.”

Samuel R. Delany (1942) American author, professor and literary critic

“Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

“It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

“What does opening your eyes and realizing your vulnerability have to do with the knowledge of good and evil? Here's the key: You know you're vulnerable. No other animal knows that. You know what hurts you, because you're vulnerable. And now that you know what hurts you, you can figure out what hurts someone else. And as soon as you know what can hurt someone as, and you can use that, then you have the knowledge of good and evil. Well it's a pretty good trick that the snake pulled because it doesn't seem like the thing that we would have exactly wanted if we knew what the consequence was going to be. As soon as a human being is self conscious and aware of his nakedness, then he has the capacity for evil. That's introduced into the world right at that point.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”

George Orwell book 1984

“Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…