“When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.”

“We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability at all. There's only so many times you can handle someone asking about your fall back for when things don't work before you start thinking that maybe the fall back should just be your plan.”

“Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.”

“You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.”

“I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.”

“When you become maintenance focused and maintenance driven, it becomes all about the things you have GOT to do and it is no longer about the things you GET to do.”