"Real love doesn't make you act crazy. The reason we act crazy when we are infatuated is because we want it to be real so badly -- we want to jump over the distance of time that makes real love what it is. That's the trick of romance: The crazy infatuation love is so much brighter and turns so many more corners so quickly. Much more exciting than the real thing. But real love, at its finest, makes you feel like you are bursting open, like this: Like hearing a beautiful song, or reading a beautiful poem, or hearing a wonderful story, and the tears come and you don't know precisely why. It doesn't hurt; it hurts in a way that isn't hurting, that we don't have a word for. Largeness. Enormity. It takes a real strength, a real grace, to stand up straight in the face of that. Especially if you're not familiar with it."I honestly don't know if I'd be the person I am today without Jacob Clifton, he's everything you want from a writer; funny, wise, and honest. Every time I reach a new apex in this crazy little journey we call life he's there with some new words of truth that help me interpret what I've just experienced - it's more than a little eerie in fact.
Anyhoo, just remind me of this next time kay?
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