Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.

—Mary H.K. Choi in Emergency Contact

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About Mary H.K. Choi

Portrait of Mary H.K. Choi

Mary H.K. Choi (born November 21, 1979) is an American author, editor, television and print journalist. She is the author of the young adult novels Emergency Contact (2018), Permanent Record (2019), and Yolk (2021). She is the culture correspondent on Vice News Tonight on HBO and was previously a columnist...

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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

—Barbara de Angelis

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One thing I truly knew—knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest—was how love gave someone the power to break you.

—Stephenie Meyer in New Moon

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I made the mistake of opening my heart up to someone who clearly could never feel the same about me.

—Abbi Glines in The Vincent Brothers

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

—Theodor W. Adorno

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Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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