"I disappear in to the person I love.
I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have it all- my money, my time... my dog. My dog's money. I will assume for you all your debts. I will reject upon you all sorts of nifty qualities you've actually never cultivated in yourself. I will give you all this and more, until I am so exausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy, is by becoming infatuated... with someone else".
"I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me."
"This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something".
"L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle- meaning
The love that moves the sun and the other stars."
"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water."
I absolutely, truly, sincerely loved this movie. I, like Liz, have embarked on my own journey to find balance. For me, is the realization that it is acceptable to have never been in love. Acceptable to me. Anything acceptable to me, is balance.
However, we don't have to be in love with JUST people. Today, I ate a pomegranite for the first time in my life. "I'm in love with this fruit," I said. And I was. Yesterday, the breeze blew through my classroom like a thief. Except I could feel it. I could imagine it's purpose for being there. Bringing life to sleeping papers which await my adjourn of grading and red pen scribbles. Floating them gently to the floor and picking them back up, as if they were dancing. Teasing my cheeks. My rosy cheeks.
" I love this weather Miss Thompson".
"Me Too".
Everything that surrounds us, that touches us, that fills us with joy is in someway a balance. We all need some kind of balance to face life's unfinished novels. Unfinished because life can't go on without love. Our stories will not become history without love.
All of us have our own stories. Our own journeys. We live each day loving something. My favorite quote in this movie was " The love that moves the sun and the other stars". If something as powerful as the sun and stars are constantly moving, shifting, rotating... then we, on earth are responsible.
How?
By loving- something that doesn't just exist in the heavens.
Hello?? Anybody listening??
Heart cupcakes tonight. Sweet..... like love.
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