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“The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person (because I need something from them).” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t the fullness of love. Instead there is attachment—there is clinging and fear. True love allows, honors, and appreciates; attachment grasps, demands, needs, and aims to possess.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“A woman filled with light makes everything she touches brighter.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“I craved the kind of closeness I felt in your embrace... I imagined giving myself over to you, completely, the way I used to, abandoning all control, letting you be in charge. I wanted that. I needed that. I'd been trying so hard to hold everything together, and I was done. I needed someone else to take over. I needed YOU to take over.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“The way I felt about you was always so clear to me—even when we were young I knew you and I were meant for each other. Two halves of a whole. I loved you so much that the word ‘love’ didn’t seem big enough for how I felt.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After