Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete. Ally Condie
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Whenever you fall in love with someone, your whole world changes. You look at them differently. Everything they do fascinates you. You can't keep your eyes off of them.

It's not just the way they look, but the way they think and act, and their personality is what draws you to them. Falling in love is like looking at the world through new eyes. Since your vision is so new, it's hard to notice what's already there.

You can notice things that weren't before because they're more obvious now that you're no longer blinded by simple attraction. As time goes on, though, you start to see more of what's always been there.

Source: Crossed

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