"This society is a huddled mass of contradictions" -- Scott Dale
"If there were such a thing as a vampire, love would be it... it drains you...but vampires have always had this certain appeal about them, haven't they?
You know they're going to hurt you... but, everyone wants it subconsciously..." Cameron Octon
"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. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perterbations of love is Hell"
-- C.S. Lewis
