first love

2/1/12
I thought this was kind of perfect.

"Nothing will ever match how safe I felt belonging to you, because only in the aftermath do I now understand that I’m not safe belonging to anybody. Love takes courage. You are forced to become vulnerable, to face and surrender the most fragile parts of yourself. It’s impossible to do it with the same naïve, reckless abandon the second or third time around.

...There’s no power like that of first love. I may not have been yours, but you were mine, and for that I know that I will always, always love you."