"Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few." – Author Unknown

 The next thing to come out of my writings is the topic of love. I decided to see what quotes about love are out there and these are just a few I found.

1. So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day…" – Ryan Gosling, The Notebook
2. "I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you." – Dirty Dancing
3. "My heart is, and always will be, yours." – Sense and Sensibility
4. "It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together … and I knew it." – Tom Hanks, Sleepless In Seattle
5.  "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever." – The Notebook
6.  "Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." – Notting Hill 

My view of love is a warped one and the reason behind it is long and still stings. I grew up with Harry Potter as my "go to world" in my mind. Reading at an almost constant rate about the long and tedious journey Ron and Hermione took to get to love. And reading how Harry annually sacrifices something and eventually everything for the love of a girl and the family that he created for himself. This hope of deep intensely moving sacrificial love is something most girls grow up to believe in after being feed stories of magic princes that sweep ladies off their feet and make everything better. I was worse for me because I buried myself in a world based on this love.

My personal tail of woe surrounds a boy... obviously. He was my "first love" and I therefore gave of myself unreservedly and naively expected it to be one of those classic novel romances. It didn't turnout that way. After a month he broke it off and a week later started dating my best friend at the time, who still believed us to be best friends and invited me to double dates . This happened many years ago and many people argue that i should be "over it". My responses to them is anyways the same. I am over it but that doesn't mean it hasn't affected me. The best explain of how it has is in my three favorite movies of all time, Moulin Rouge, Titanic, and Romeo and Juliet. In each of these movies the main characters are on opposing sides and must fight to be together and when the are together, its bliss. But its ripped anyway.  I see love as a tragic thing.

I sont give off myself so freely anymore. I guard myself. I wear a mask.

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