You Can’t Protect Yourself And Fall In Love At The Same Time—And That’s Okay
Who can forget the poetic “Breakfast at Tiffany's'' scene where Paul (George Peppard) passionately fights for the love of Holly (Audrey Hepburn) out in the pouring rain? Perhaps this scene has remained in our memories because it’s so painfully true.
“You’re chicken. You’ve got no guts,” he tells her. “You’re afraid to stick out your chin and say ‘Okay, life’s a fact.’ People do fall in love. People do belong to each other. Because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness. You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing. And you’re terrified somebody’s going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas or on the east by Somaliland, it’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”