QUOTE : So many sayings about the heart had been misinterpreted, and that was one of them. To be brave in love wasn’t to wear your heart on your sleeve and fall in love with as many people as possible. It wasn’t to fearlessly open your heart at every turn. Being brave in love was to fearfully open your heart. When you were emotionally invested up to your neck and expected rejection and pain and refusal, bravery in love was saying the words anyway. Shrinking away to where the heart was safe was the route people took more often than not.