Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.