"To love is to destroy."

Never give someone the upper hand. You don't know when things will turn around or when you'll get stabbed in the back. It's so hard to trust people. To tell someone everything and the next day, they're gone. You can wish all you want, but you know that you're the only one left. The truth hurts and so does the pain of not being good enough. As Cassandra Clare writes in the City of Bones, "That to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed."