When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
Ann BrasharesParticularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
Ann BrasharesI mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
Ann Brashares