For Candice :)

I quit everything. But I’ve never quit on love.

I love to love and I love being in love.

It’s the one thing I’m pretty good at, even if my significant others were not.

I’m a sappy person. In fact, I like chick flicks and, even more so, the romantic-comedy genre. For some reason, it’s easy for me to fall in love even though I’m scared to death of being heartbroken.

When you’re in love, you open yourself up to another person. Once your heart is open, you are vulnerable to attack.

Love is hard and complicated to understand. It’s not something you see, but rather something you can only feel. Sometimes, it can be hard to detect, especially if you’ve been heartbroken before. Nonetheless, soon you will recognize that you’re neck deep in it.

No matter how hard-knocks I pretend to be on the outside, on the inside I want to love and I want to be loved.

I want a lifelong happy marriage—that fairytale life that movies are written about—but love like that is hard to find. How do you know when you’ve found it?

Are you actually in love or do you just love love?

Love has so many unanswered questions. For women, it’s a complex feeling to grasp, but since we’re emotionally wired, we strive for that complexity. We want that feeling of knowing that we’re needed and cherished.

Love makes us feel beautiful, like we’re the only woman in the world.

It is hard not to get caught up with the idea of love or to spend your time searching for it. We’re women and we are very in touch with our emotions—especially love.

And while we search for love, we must remember never to obsess about it.

Because loving love sets you up for heartbreak. When you love love, you will try to turn anything into a fairytale romance. You must distinguish between the two, even though it is complicated. See beyond the idea of the fairytale and see the man that you are with. Do you really love him, or do you just want the fairytale wedding?

Remember to be patient with love. Never settle. You will find love, and if you are patient enough, you will have it the rest of your life.