"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life"

In this quote, Merle Shain highlights the idea that love features a rate. It needs vulnerability, sacrifice, and effort. However, the expense of not loving is even higher. Those who hesitate to like and open themselves approximately the possibility of getting hurt, often wind up feeling a sense of vacuum and absence of fulfillment in their lives. This worry of love can avoid them from experiencing the pleasure and happiness that features caring and being loved. Eventually, Shain suggests that the danger of caring is worth it, as the option of not caring can result in a life without real joy.