I have spent a great deal of my life struggling to keep myself in control. To know myself inside and out, everything In perfect order. I lose that when I'm with you. That frightens me, and it frightens me how much I like it. How tempting it is to lose myself in you. To let it go. To let you save me from breaking chandeliers rather than constantly worrying about it, myself. Erin Morgenstern
About This Quote

When someone is in love, they are often willing to sacrifice their well being in order to maintain the relationship. This quote tells us that it’s not just love but also control that brings about this behavior. The person in the relationship wants to know everything about their partner so they can understand what they need and help them become who they want to be. However, when someone becomes too familiar with their partner, it becomes easy for them to lose themselves in the other person.

They become too dependent on their partner and forget who they are. Finally, the quote can be read as saying that this behavior is frightful because it is so tempting to get lost in the other person. However, the desire to get lost always leads back to ourselves; we must always remember ourselves, no matter how strongly we might want to get lost in another person.

Source: The Night Circus

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