Love really is just "I'm thinking of you. I will ask you if you are okay. I remember your favorite flavor of tea. I want to talk to you. I hope your mother is well. I will read to you. I like your laugh. I want to help you. I will sit next to you. I got you the chocolate you like. Your eyes have gold in them. I think you'd like this book. I miss you when you aren't here." isn't it?
it's the way I'll never have someone who falls in love with me repeatedly and harder than the previous time like Aaron did with Juliette. It's the way I'll never have someone who's so obsessed with me that he wears my hair tie on his wrist for years like Christian did with Gianna. It's the way I'll never have someone who'd go to therapy just so that they can be a better person for me like Noah did with Maya. It's the way I'll never have someone who loves me despite all my flaws like Loren did with Lily.
“forgive all the versions of yourself that operated out of fear instead of growth, the ones that viewed comfort zones as safe havens and abandoned boundaries to keep other people happy, forgive all the versions of yourself that didn’t know that love begins with how you treat you.”
“No matter how dreamlike a love I have found myself in, no matter how delightfully drunk I have been, in my heart I was always aware that my family consisted of only one other person. The space that cannot be filled, no matter how cheerfully a child and an old person are living together—the deathly silence that, panting in a corner of the room, pushes its way in like a shudder. I felt it very early, although no one told me about it.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
It’s always I love you and never “everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.”