on love, and what not and so on and so forth...

I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.
–Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
–Zora Neale Hurston

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
–James Baldwin

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch

go out there and fall in love, y'all! i promise the heartache will be worth it...