Laís (Bookish version)’s Reviews > Conversations on Love > Status Update

"In my teens and 20's I'd convinced myself that people who loved eache other were drawn together like magnets, no matter what. But when distances like these emerge in our relationshps, romantic or otherwise, we can't wait for a mystical gravitational force to close the gap. Istead, we have to create that force with honesty and empathy and forgiveness."

"It shouldn't had surprised me really, because it was one of the first leasons I learned about love: it is not instant like a spark, it is something that grows if tended to, like a flame stoked into a fire."

All of us at some point have to learn how to get our hearts broken