“Better to love and fear than feel nothing”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”
Tale xiv, "The Struggles of Conscience". Compare: "'T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
Tales in Verse (1812)
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Source: Something Borrowed