Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

—Dorothy Koomson in My Best Friend’s Girl

About Dorothy Koomson

Dorothy Koomson (born 1971 in London) is a contemporary British novelist of Ghanaian descent. She has been described as "Britain's biggest selling black author of adult fiction".

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When you can’t be honest with people, you can’t ever relax with them.

—Dorothy Koomson in My Best Friend’s Girl

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.

—Louise Erdrich in The Painted Drum

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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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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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Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

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