“It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.”

“Heartbreak happens every day . . . anyone can break your heart if you let them.”

“I learned the hard way not to open my heart to a stranger, knowing that it only leads to heartbreak, tears, and weight gain".”

“The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully. No doubt that letter was destined to lie in her box and lead to nothing. But none the less, I am certain that she would keep it all her life as a precious treasure, as her pride and justification, and now at such a minute she had thought of that letter and brought it with naive pride to raise herself in my eyes that I might see, that I, too, might think well of her.”

“Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.”

“Interaction between us was a bad thing,and would ultimately be a disappointment for her, but the only thing I could feel was... please don't let it end.”